“When you say that things are fine so much, it sounds like a lie,” — Alex to Dade. That’s just one of the lines that gets to the heart of the characters in Nick Burd’s debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary, a book that’s among the finalists for this year’s Lambda Literary awards in [...]
The NYC Teen Author Festival is back this week and last night Will and I went to our neighborhood Barnes & Noble in Tribeca to check out a panel discussion titled “Inside the Mind of a Teen Boy.” Of course, this was particularly interesting to me since I continue to work on my own YA [...]
