Underrated LGBTQ+ YA Books You Need to Read
There are a lot of LGBTQ+ YA books that we all know and love like all of Adam Silvera’s, Becky Albertalli’s, and David Levithan’s books, but what about these?
AUTHOR: Camila Fagen
BookCon Recap: The Broken World
On this very tragically timely talk, moderated by Soman Chainani author of The School of Good and Evil series, Justina Ireland author of the Dread Nation series, Promise of Shadows and various Star Wars novels; Tahereh Mafi author of the Shatter Me series, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, and the Furthermore and Whichwood novels; and Adam Silvera author of Infinity Son, History is All You Left Me, They Both Die at the End, and More Happy Than Not talk about the broken worlds they created and the one we live in. Image via The Atlantic Soman Chainani opens the panel with how …
BookExpo Recap: Middle Grade Editor’s Buzz
On this panel, editors Wesley Adams, Phoebe Yeh, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Maggie Rosenthal, and Reka Simonsen discussed with their authors the six books coming out this Fall that they are most excited about. These were the books presented: Chance: Escape From The Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz. In this picture book memoir, Shulevitz tells the story of his Jewish family who fled the terrors of the Nazis in Warsaw for the Soviet Union, while also exploring his awakening as an artist. Uri Shulevitz says that the art in this book is different because it was more important to him to convey emotion …
Activist and Author Larry Kramer Dies at 84
Larry Kramer, American author, playwright, film producer, and activist born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has died aged 84. He wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film Women in Love and earned an Academy Award nomination for his work. Later with his novel Faggots, he introduced a very confrontational and controversial style. This novel, despite the mixed reviews, has become “one of the bestselling novels about gay life ever written.” He became an AIDS activist when he witnessed the spread of the disease among his community. He co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and expressed his frustrations about the mishandling of the crisis …
First Trailer for ‘Love, Victor’ is Finally Here
It seems like the show is going to be full of swoony and fun moments as well as hard and painful ones.