Secrets of the YA YA Adulthood
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a story about the fact that adults are reading more and more YA and children’s fiction. It doesn’t say anything earth-shattering – a lot of people like books that have strong stories, likeable characters, and tidy endings, apparently – but it does raise, by implication, the question of whether publishers of mainstream literary fiction have lost sight of the pleasure principle.
On the other hand, it also contains this quote, from a college student who reads a lot of YA fiction:
“[People] want something a little more entertaining or fluffy, so they come to the kids’ section, only to find out that these books are not necessarily fluffy at all. Like Harry Potter – it makes you think.”
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