When Novels Work (a post in which I quote smart people)

My final word on Banned Books week is really Carrie Ryan's word:

"We should question everything and we should encourage teens especially to question it all. We should have faith in them -- in all of us -- that armed with as much information as possible, we're going to make good decisions."

I encourage you to read her whole post.

On the writing front, I was electrified to find this in Chitra Divakaruni's essay, "New Insights into the Novel?  Try Reading Three Hundred," in Writers [on Writing:], ...