In this podcast, Michael Cart interviews Lizzie Skurnick author of the just released Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics we Never Stopped Reading. Lizzie is also the author of the blog Old Hag and is a columnist for Jezebel.

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The podcast discussion covers:

• Shelf Discovery
• The range of human experience covered in teen novels.
• How teens read and what they get out of reading realistic fiction.
• Books including Secret Lives by Bertha Amos, Jacob Have I Loved, Phyllis Reynold Naylor’s Alice series, and The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp.
• Reasons why novels for girls and women do not receive the respect they deserve.
• Skurnick’s career & the readership of her Jezebel columns.
• The future of print reviewing and the changing world of reading in electronic and print formats.