Publisher’s Weekly has an article on the sudden rise and resurgence of YA (Young Adult) fiction in our culture. It notes that not just young adults are buying YA fiction, but that it is grabbing the attention of older adults too. Beginning with the success of Harry Potter and progressing to Twilight (as a strictly cultural and not literary phenomena)… Read more →
Category: Christianity and Literature
Writing as Incarnation
According to Jane Yolen, in her book Touch Magic, children read fiction differently than adults. Adults come to fiction in order to apply; they come looking for what they want to see in a text. For “as the writer writes about himself or herself solipsistically, so the adult reader reads.” In other words, for most adults, we see what we… Read more →