Meet Young Adult Authors David Levithan and Rachel Cohn and E. Lockhart
11/11/2010 7:00 pm
11/11/2010 8:00 pm
Meet Young Adult Authors David Levithan and Rachel Cohn and E. Lockharton
Thursday, November 11th at 7:00 p.m.
Together, Rachel and David captured the New York teen experience with their first novel, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (that Sony Pictures turned into a movie starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennnings).
Now they have returned with DASH & LILY’S BOOK OF DARES a funny and heartwarming YA novel that is both a tribute to New York as well as bookstores.
David Levithan David Levithan finds it downright baffling to write about himself, which is why he's considering it somewhat cruel and usual to have to write this brief bio. The factual approach (born '72, Brown '94, book '03) seems a bit dry, while the emotional landscape (happy childhood, happy adolescence - give or take a few poems - and happy adulthood so far) sounds horribly well-adjusted. The only addiction he's ever had was a brief spiral into the arms of diet Dr Pepper, unless you count My So-Called Life episodes as a drug. He is evangelical in his musical beliefs and deathly afraid that his bio will end up sounding like the final paragraph in an on-line dating ad.
Rachel Cohn: People often ask me why I decided to become a writer, and my answer is simple: I became a writer because I had to do something with all the voices in my head, or I’d go crazy. Fiction writing seemed the most logical—and healthy—outlet for these voices.
From E. Lockhart: I ate cinnamon toast for breakfast. I am writing this in my pajamas, which are cute and have cherries on them. I drink too much coffee. I am always cold and wear a ski hat indoors on a regular basis. I like yoga videos. I don't like television. I like to cook. I am a feminist. I always meet deadlines. I hold a grudge. I give good presents. I don't eat meat. I don't wear yellow. I make friends slowly. I am afraid of airplanes. I can not draw. I write on a Macintosh in a tiny office that doubles as my closet. It has a window. It has a cat or two. I work in the morning five days a week and then run errands or try to exercise. I outline. I revise as I go and then do several more drafts after that. I try to generate at least a page of small-type single space text every day, but I fail a good deal.
