J.K. Rowling is breaking away from “young adult” fiction to write a book for people out of high school. There’s no word yet on what her new “adult” novel will be about. It could be more excellent fantasy or it could be about some navel gazing thirty something questioning their boring lives. Who knows! The [...]

If my parents hadn’t conceived me out of wedlock, it’d officially be my birthday today, so I’m going to celebrate as any self-respecting internet commentator would: by mocking Twilight. Of course, pretty much every conceivable angle has been covered on the series’s sexism, Mormonism, and whatever the hell a werewolf falling in love with a [...]

There’s really nothing so frustrating for a writer as to come up with a great idea, than to find out it’s already been done. It can be as simple as a line of dialogue—you thought you’d come up with a cool line, but try publishing it and you’re Cassandra Claire. And even if you go [...]

I think this is pretty gross. So Kathryn Stockett, author of the uber popular novel The Help - the film adaptation of which opened this weekend - was sued by her brother’s maid, claiming one of the characters was based on her. The judge in Mississippi dismissed the suit saying the statute of limitations was up. Allow [...]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a contentious little book. It regularly tops the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books. Though I think a book about gay penguins may have beaten it this year? It’s about a boy coming to terms with his best friend’s suicide (also coming to terms with another [...]

Meg Murry is one of the best, cleverest, most fully-realized heroines to ever grace a young adult novel. Bella? You ain’t sh*t compared to Meg Murry. She’s got low self-esteem but she’s kind of a brilliant mathematician and she was cool and saving the world back before it was okay for girls to be good [...]

    For a while there in 2008 it seemed like Tina Fey was a little overexposed. She had a movie, a tv show and was making national news because she looked like Sarah Palin. When an actor or an actress gets overexposed, the general populace turns on them. They grow nasty and they say [...]

I think we can all agreed that the news of a new Ms. Marple film featuring a 30-40 something Marple was a terrible idea. What wasn’t known at the time was that Jennifer Garner’s production company wanted to make the film with Garner starring. Ma’am you squandered all the first season Alias goodwill when you [...]

Years and years and years ago I would troll forums and drop that little bombshell. “JRR Tolkien hates women.” People would get pissed. And by people I mean all the guys who trolled the same forums. Didn’t I know that there were women in the Lord of the Rings? That those women kicked ass? That [...]