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
The plague of first-person narration that has filtered down over the decades from adult and young adult literature to middle grade novels, including these two titles, often results in tween protagonists whose self-awareness strains credulity.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021
George Takei of “StarTrek” fame shared a prize for best young adult literature by an author of Asian Pacific background.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2020
When children have their Psalmist, their Shakespeare, their Keats, they will not be offered diluted adult literature.
From Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
