Monthly Archives: December 2011

Hart Hanson talks Booth’s emotional episode

“Around here, we all think that David and Emily are completely underrated as actors. They jump from humor to pathos within a scene. Emily brilliantly plays someone who is emotionally distant that somehow you connect to, and I don’t think anyone has ever done that as successfully as she has. David is like James Garner or Cary Grant,  so charming, and then he turns around [and guts you]…” — Hart Hanson

Read the rest at Entertainment Weekly

Authors Stand Up for Free Speech

Authors Laurie Halse Anderson (Twisted), M.T. Anderson (Feed), Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why), T.A. Barron (The Lost Years of Merlin), Dave Barry (Dave Barry’s Guide to Life), Heather Brewer (Eighth Grade Bites), Chris Crutcher (Athletic Shorts), Sarah Dessen (Just Listen), John Green (Looking for Alaska), Lev Grossman (The Magicians), Ellen Hopkins  (Crank), Anthony Horowitz (Snakehead), Maureen Johnson (The Bermudez Triangle), Nina LaCour (Hold Still), Carolyn Mackler (The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things), Lauren Myracle (ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r series), Kathy Reichs (creator of Temperance “Bones” Brennan), Meg Rosoff (There Is No Dog), Rita Williams-Garcia (Jumped), and Jacqueline Woodson (The House You Pass on the Way) remind us why freedom of speech matters to young readers.

The American Library Association maintains a list of the most frequently challenged books of the 21st century.