I first spoke to Michael Cart, former president of YALSA and a columnist for Booklist, when I interviewed him for my New York Times essay a year ago, and I was instantly enamoured by his knowledge of and passion for YA literature. Recently he interviewed me for a podcast that’s up now on the YALSA… Read more »
Michael Cart
NYTBR outtakes, Volume 3: Michael Cart, Linda Sue Park, Justine Larbalestier, and the YA community
In an earlier draft of this essay, there were some great quotes about YA that, sadly, had to be cut for space reasons. Here are some of them below: Michael Cart, the former president of YALSA, told me that we are currently in the “new golden age” of young adult literature. “YA has become the… Read more »