Tomorrow, Feb. 21, 2010, I hope you’ll visit a web site called Teens Read Too, where I’m the guest blogger of the day. In addition to my typically profound post, you have the chance to peer even deeper into my brain as I try to answer a daunting list of questions posed by the site’s moderator. It’s been fun! And I’m going pursue one or more of the questions — such as ‘why are teens so compelled by the paranormal?’ — in future blogs.
If you happen to be reading this after Feb 21, 2010, you can still click on Teens Read Too and find my guest blog by scrolling down to Feb. 21.
We’ll talk later.
Tags: Guest blog, Teens Read Too
Was very interested to read your comments and the answers to the inteview questions on Teens Read Too. As a writer and college prof who teaches many 18 year olds, I feel the questions you pose are on the money. No time to go into all of it, but absoluletly, I think that writers and teenagers both suffer from the political correctness nonsense. Sensitivity, yes, political correctness, no. A very prominent British writer swept most of North American fiction aside by saying it tended to be “predictable and dull” because of political correctness. If writers aren’t allowed to take chances, we won’t have literature. Can you imagine the political correctness police with their hands on the manuscripts of “Huckleberry Finn,” “Catcher in The Rye” even, recently, Pullman’s “The Golden Compass” and its two siblings? They wouldn’t have been published. Or “Monty Python” ? So, yes, PJ, I agree that a girl’s struggle with pregnancy does make a worthy subject. When novelist John Gardner said that contemporary writers should tackle the big subjects, the “moral” (his word) subjects in the manner of the 19th century novelists, he meant exactly the dilemna that Roxy is going through. Just one more comment: when’s that next book going to be finished? You know what I’m talking about!
Kudos PJ. Great iterview!