adult literature
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Author Charlie Jane Anders reflects on reading and writing young adult literature in an era of explosive popularity that may now be coming to an end.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
For one thing, I don't know of another adventure story that has a gay protagonist, at least in adult literature.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022
Lee Galda Pellegrini Bloomington, Minn. The writer is emerita professor of children’s and young adult literature at the University of Minnesota.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2022
When you walk into the high-ceilinged space, you’re greeted by a display of beautiful photography and coffee table books, with genre fiction and young adult literature on the left wall and nonfiction along the right.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
The public of Warton's day had relegated all tales about knights, dragons, and enchanters to the nursery, and Thomas Warton shows courage in insisting that they are excellent subjects for serious and adult literature.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund