Penguin Classics Get Fashionable New Facelifts

New York Fashion Week may be over, but the newly facelifted Penguin Classics Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and The Scarlett Letter, are here to stay. Featuring modern new covers by noted illustrator and artist Ruben Toledo (and designed to coincide with New York Fashion Week) Penguin’s intention was to attract new readers to classics [...]

Reminiscences on ‘classic’ YA of Yesterday

Jezebel columnist Lizzie Skurnick’s has just released a book, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classic We Never Stopped Reading, which is all about her re-reading and reminiscing on her favorite YA books as a child and teen in ways both humorous and profound…though mostly humorous. Shelf Discovery includes esays from Skurnick’s Jezebel column, “Fine Lines” and [...]

The Austen re-invention continues: Sense and Sensibility…and Sea Monsters

After the runaway success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk books just announced last night a new title in its collection – Sense and Sensbility and Sea Monsters to be released this coming September. According to an interview with EW.com, book co-author Ben H. Winters promises, “a giant rampaging mutant lobster. Octopi with glittering [...]

What are YA protagnists reading? Not YA it seems….

A neat question asked by Librarilly Blonde. She notes that even though most YA books are peppered with references to pop culture, popular music and fashion, notable YA books themselves are rarely mentioned. Instead most YA protagonists are reading ‘classics’ like The Catcher in the Rye or The Outsiders — not popular YA or even [...]

The Teenage Girl ‘Twilight’ Phenomenon and YA Publishing…

Space Channel in Canada just did a feature this weekend on the success of Twilight and asked the question, “why do teenage girls love to read fantasy and what does it mean for the book industry?” This clip also features an interview with Canadian author, Lesley Livingstone, whose first book, Wondrous Strange, is drawing Twilight [...]