{"id":1044,"date":"2011-08-26T18:09:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T08:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2011-09-16T19:21:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T09:21:19","slug":"girls-and-boys-and-books-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/girls-and-boys-and-books-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls and Boys and Books, Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, no! The YA publishing industry is dominated by girls! Girls reading books, girls writing books, girls actually allowed to be <em>main characters<\/em> in books . . . It&#8217;s out of control and it has to stop, says Robert Lipsyte in his recent <em>New York Times<\/em> essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/21\/books\/review\/boys-and-reading-is-there-any-hope.html?_r=1\" title=\"\"Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope? by Robert Lipsyte\"\"><em>Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope?<\/em><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for all of us, Aja Romano has now published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/ny-times-to-ya-publishing-stop-being-so-girly\/\" title=\"'NY Times To YA Publishing: Stop Being So Girly' by Aja Romano\">brilliant response<\/a> to this rubbish. Unlike Mr Lipsyte&#8217;s essay, Ms Romano&#8217;s article is full of facts and logic and common sense, and is written by someone who&#8217;s actually familiar with contemporary YA literature. It&#8217;s well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>EDITED TO ADD: Tea Cozy has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.schoollibraryjournal.com\/teacozy\/2011\/08\/29\/opposing-viewpoints\/\" title=\"Tea Cozy: Opposing Viewpoints\">a great post about this<\/a>, which includes a link to another <a href=\"http:\/\/saundramitchell.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/the-problem-is-not-the-books\/\" title=\"Saundra Mitchell: The problem is not the books\">brilliant response<\/a> by Saundra Mitchell, who also posted <a href=\"http:\/\/saundramitchell.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/and-this-is-why-the-problem-is-not-the-books\/\" title=\"Saundra Mitchell: And this is why the problem is not the books\">a long list of YA books about boys<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, no! The YA publishing industry is dominated by girls! Girls reading books, girls writing books, girls actually allowed to be main characters in books . . . It&#8217;s out of control and it has to stop, says Robert Lipsyte in his recent New York Times essay, Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope? Fortunately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/girls-and-boys-and-books-yet-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girls and Boys and Books, Yet Again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-rant","category-young-adult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}