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How can we turn to fiction for a reality check?

Mark Oshiro, the award-winning YA author of Anger Is a Gift--winner of the 2019 Schneider Family Book Award and finalist for a 2019 Lambda Literary Award--and the newly released Each of Us a Desert, discusses with Julie and Eve how the rapidly-growing genre of speculative fiction provides authors and readers alike the perspective and imaginative scope to help grapple with the reality of 2020 while envisioning a different future. Mark also explains what sensitivity readers do--and don’t do--and why they’re so important.




Anger Is a Gift


*31st Annual Lammy Finalist forLGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult category*

*2019 ALA Schneider Family Book Award Teen Winner*

*Buzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018*

*Vulture's 38 Best LGBTQ YA Novels*

*Book Riot's Best Books 2018*

*Hyable's Most Anticipated Queer YA Books of 2018*

*The Mary Sue's 18 Books You Should Read in 2018*



Go Deeper

Mark Oshiro

Anger is a Gift, by Mark Oshiro

Each of Us a Desert, by Mark Oshiro

The Insiders, by Mark Oshiro

Speculative Fiction

Stephen King

Edgar Allan Poe

Octavia E. Butler

Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas

Legendborn, by Tracy Deonn

Eve Yohalem

Julie Sternberg

Book Dreams Podcast

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Lit Hub Radio

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