Over at the Interroblog: Call for a New New Realism

I have a post up on the Interroblog today on emotional realism in genre YA.

I was reading the fortieth-anniversary edition of John Donovan's woefully little-known young adult classic I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip last. If you're not familiar with this title (and you might not be; it was out of print for twenty years!), it was the first "gay" young adult fiction ever published, way back in 1969.

But to call it merely the first gay YA novel would be to sell it short, because I'll...