In this podcast, Michael Cart talks about some memorable LGBTQ characters in literature. Titles mentioned include: Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland, The Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge, Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden, Deliver Us from Evie by M.E. Kerr, Luna by Julie Ann Peters, and Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg.
Tag: ya literature
Book Banning and the Field of YA Literature
In this podcast, Infopeople’s resident YA literature expert, Michael Cart talks about YA literature and book banning and deduces that censorship, like cockroaches, will always be with us.
Michael Cart Looks at Recent Trends in YA Lit
In this podcast, Michael Cart looks at some trends in young adult literature, how we read (digital brains, anyone?) and the phenomenon that is John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars.
Mentioned in this podcast: Serious Reading Takes a Hit (Washington Post, April 6, 2014), and Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books? (New York Times, March 15, 2014).
Michael Cart talks about the world of adult books for young adults
In his latest podcast, Michael Cart, Infopeople’s book reviewer par excellence, gives an historical overview of the field of adult books for young adults. Oh, and he also has a new book of his own that recently came out: Cart’s Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults: Two Decades in Review.
Michael Cart Looks at YA genre bending and blending
In this podcast, Infopeople’s book geek Michael Cart looks at the huge growth in popularity of YA genre blending: in particular the worlds of fantasy and science fiction, with a dash of dystopian fiction thrown in.
Among the titles mentioned in this podcast:
- Books of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau
- Caretaker Trilogy, by David Klass
- Feed, by M.T. Anderson
- House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
- The Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
