Malinda Lo

Earlier this week I followed the link to an article at The Appendix, Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’€™s The World Until Yesterday (I think I owe a hat tip to Kate Elliott for this), and it was fascinating reading for me, an anthropology Ph.D. dropout. It’s about biologist Jared Diamond’s most recent book, The World Until ... More→

Last month, when I blogged about Heteronormativity, fantasy, and Bitterblue, the issue of a writer’s “agenda” popped up more than once, as in: Did Kristin Cashore have a liberal agenda when writing Bitterblue, and was it too obvious? Those questions can obviously be extended to all writers and books: Did the writer have an agenda ... More→

Last week at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sarah Mesle (currently a Mellon Fellow in English at UCLA) wrote a provocatively titled essay, “YA Fiction and the End of Boys.” There have been plenty of responses to her piece, many (if not most) of them rejecting the contention implicit in the title: that boys ... More→

On Saturday at KidLitCon, there was a panel on diversity in blogging about children’s and YA literature. I was not there (bummer! sounds like it was a great panel), but author Brent Hartinger was on the panel, and via Twitter I learned that he said this during the panel: Brent handily encapsulated a whole mess ... More→