Michael Cart interviews Margo Rabb author of Cures for Heartbreak and The Missing Persons series.

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The conversation includes discussion of:

• Rabb’s New York Times essay, I’m Y.A. and I’m O.K. on the cross-over in books between teen and adult.
• Short stories for teens and novels written in short story format.
• The challenges of writing fiction and writing autobiographical fiction.
• The definition and re-definition of young adult literature.
• Literary novels for young adults.
• Adult and teen cross-shelving of materials in bookstores and libraries.