We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: A Joan Didion Retrospective
You’ve seen the photo, the waifish woman, leaning against a Corvette, cigarette in one hand and the other wrapped around…
You’ve seen the photo, the waifish woman, leaning against a Corvette, cigarette in one hand and the other wrapped around…
Today on the B&N Teen blog, we welcome Samira Ahmed, who made a big impression with her debut, Love Hate &…
There’s always at least a bit of darkness in Kiersten White’s books, and sometimes a lot. In honor of her…
YA Open Mic is a monthly series in which YA authors share personal stories on topics of their choice. The…
Full disclosure: unlike the characters in my new book, R.I.P. Eliza Hart, I did not attend boarding school. Still, I’ve…
If you don’t have Julie C. Dao’s Forest of a Thousand Lanterns on your TBR, you probably haven’t heard of…
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When you see Emery Lord’s name on the cover of a book you’re about to read, you know a few…
It’s one thing to get yourself on my instabuy list; it’s quite another to leap to the top with your…
Mia Siegert’s debut YA novel, Jerkbait, is an intensely personal work. On the surface, this might seem strange to say:…
If you’re a contemporary YA romance fan, there’s a pretty good chance Morgan Matson has broken your heart somewhere along…
Stacy Schiff gets it. She gets people. She studies lives tirelessly and fiercely and perfectly, and when she is finished…
Summer is that beautiful, hopeful, inspiring time in between school years that seems both limitless and all too fleeting, and…
There are so many things you can pretty safely count on in a Miranda Kenneally novel: strong-minded heroines, sex-positivity, the charming southern setting of her…
Jenny Han is the master of the triangle, creating conflicted, confounding love stories that leave readers gasping. Case in point?…
I approach all fairy tale retellings with a large amount of trepidation. I love the classic tales, and I love gritty retellings,…
Ask a bunch of authors or YA readers what books first got them into YA in its current incarnation, and…
Some good, tear-jerking books make you want to curl up in a ball all day, rereading passages and mourning everything…
Nora Ephron wrote her truth. She shared the daily horrors and joys of being a particular type of woman (opinionated,…