Sex, Drugs, and Vampires
Everything You Secretly Wanted to Know About YA But Were Afraid to Ask| Host: | |
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| Network: | Global |
| Date: | Thursday, November 5, 2009 |
| Time: | 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
| Location: | WORD |
| Street: | 126 Franklin Street |
| City/Town: | Brooklyn, NY |
Description
We're having our first ever triple-stuffed YA NOT? event with three fantastic authors: Libba Bray (GOING BOVINE), Carolyn MacCullough (ONCE A WITCH) and Robin Wasserman (SKINNED). They put their heads together and here's what they have planned for the evening:
"Once upon a time, YA fiction involved after-school special moralizing, teens worried about their split ends, and feel-good babysitting clubs. Now, it's a brave new world that reflects our modern anxieties--war, self-harm, drugs, sex, identity, gender, existentialism and more--with no-holds barred honesty (and occasional supernatural creatures). Join YA authors Robin Wasserman, Carolyn MacCullough, and Libba Bray as they discuss the new landscape of young adult fiction, from what makes a book YA to getting published to book banning and beyond."
As a special twist for this event, not only with our authors interview each other, but they will solicit questions from the audience (and in advance) that will be randomly selected from a hat and then answered. No question is too daring...
"Once upon a time, YA fiction involved after-school special moralizing, teens worried about their split ends, and feel-good babysitting clubs. Now, it's a brave new world that reflects our modern anxieties--war, self-harm, drugs, sex, identity, gender, existentialism and more--with no-holds barred honesty (and occasional supernatural creatures). Join YA authors Robin Wasserman, Carolyn MacCullough, and Libba Bray as they discuss the new landscape of young adult fiction, from what makes a book YA to getting published to book banning and beyond."
As a special twist for this event, not only with our authors interview each other, but they will solicit questions from the audience (and in advance) that will be randomly selected from a hat and then answered. No question is too daring...

