The Living

Although some may call Matt de la Peña’s newest novel, The Living (Delacorte Press, 2013), a commercial, fast-paced dystopian, I prefer to think of it as a quiet, character-driven novel wrapped in the warm cocoon of “high-concept.” The novel follows…

Writing Crossing Cultural Borders-An Introduction to a new blog series

This week’s guest post comes to us via Emily Jiang. Emily Jiang is a poet, writer, & composer. She is the author of Summoning the Phoenix, illustrated by April Chu, and published by Shen’s Books, an imprint of Lee &…