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Removing the YA Label: A Proposal, a Fantasy

What, indeed, would happen if the “young adult” label suddenly…vanished? By Beth Kephart Not long ago, a high school looking for a book to read school-wide weighed the benefits of choosing a historical...

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A Cambodian Genocide Survivor’s Long Journey into Fiction

“As a survivor, I feel, I enter art to save — to immortalize — those I could not protect as a child.” By Beth Kephart Vaddey Ratner novel In the Shadow of the Banyan was one of the most highly sought...

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On Cambodia, Trauma and Making it Real for YA Readers

“It was almost a perfect amalgam of Arn’s actual voice, his own accidental poetry, and me ‘channeling’ that voice.” By Beth Kephart Anyone who confuses young adult literature with simple kids’ stuff...

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Florence’s Timeless Bookstore for Expats and Travelers

“Expat customers are big readers, and more literary, more international, with tastes more varied.” By Beth Kephart FLORENCE: I wanted to walk where Dante might have walked, wanted to stand where...

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On Publishing for Gen Y and “New Adult” Literature

“Gen Y wants content immediately available and accessible, on multiple platforms and devices” Dan Weiss will speak this Wednesday at Publishing Perspectives’ conference, “YA: What’s Next?”. Join us on...

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Lamp Lighters and Seed Sowers: Tomorrow’s YA

The following is the keynote address delivered by on Wednesday by Beth Kephart at Publishing Perspectives’ “YA: What’s Next?” publishing conference. Text by Beth Kephart, Illustrations by William R....

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Border Crossers: The Here/There Memoirs

By Beth Kephart Let us return to one of my favorite memoirs of all time — Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family. I’ll use any excuse, but this, I think, is a particularly good one. We’re in the...

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Celebrating the Launch of Shebooks

From her blog, Beth Kephart Books, noted author and Publishing Perspectives contributor Beth Kephart celebrated the launch of something new: Shebooks. Looking for something bright in this new year? A...

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A World Without Walls?

Checkpoints. Watchtowers. Walls…”Why do we persist in dividing people when it only served to diminish hope and the greater good?,” asks author Beth Kephart. Editorial by Beth Kephart Beth Kephart We...

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Literary Snacks: A Story Vending Machine Hits High School

A Philadelphia high school is launching an innovative student-run publishing program that offers YA stories via a vending machine. By Beth Kephart At Capilona University, in Vancouver, Canada, a...

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