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In the Smart Pop Classics series, we share greatest hits from our throwback essay collections. This week, Sarah Reese Brennan dives into gender dynamics in her essay “Women Who Love Vampires Who Eat Women” from A Visitor’s Guide to Mystic Falls. Buffy Summers and Bella Swan. What do they have in common? I know, they… Read more Smart Pop Classics’ Summer of YA Romance: Women Who Love Vampires Who Eat Women
In the Smart Pop Classics’ Summer of YA Romance series, we share greatest hits from our throwback YA essay collections. This week, Rosemary Clement-Moore explores personality types and elements of heroism in her essay “From Factions to Fire Signs” from Divergent Thinking. What’s your sign? It’s a pickup line so old that dinosaurs used it… Read more Smart Pop Classics’ Summer of YA Romance: From Factions to Fire Signs
In the Smart Pop Classics’ Summer of YA Romance series, we share greatest hits from our throwback YA essay collections. This week, Peter Stromberg breaks down how how reading about intense emotions can help us feel those emotions, and the positive impact this has on the human psyche, in his essay “The Emotional Pleasures of… Read more Smart Pop Classics’ Summer of YA Romance: The Emotional Pleasures of Reading Twilight
In the Smart Pop Classics’ Summer of YA Romance series, we share greatest hits from our throwback YA essay collections. This week, Kami Garcia tells it straight—Simon never stood a chance with Clary—in her essay “Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl” from Shadowhunters and Downworlders. I’m just going to come right out and… Read more Smart Pop Classics’ Summer of YA Romance: Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl