Kat and Phoebe are joined by Jessa Crispin, literary critic and culture writer, to talk about dewy ingenues, the young-adultification of literature, and why that one guy on Book Twitter was screaming about worms.
Links:
Jessa on age gaps in the Boston Review: Pathologizing Desire
Jessa's essay on the Underground Railroad vs Normal People, both for children
David Bowles' epic "disgusting worms" Twitter meltdown
Kat's 2017 (but still relevant) primer for understanding YA's internecine conflicts: The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter
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