We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice heroism war politics and family struggle.
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose...
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say and always a clever thing to say.
