The Washington Post, August 7th, 2004
An occasional column in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. One of the many lamentable ways in which American literature has changed over the past century or so is that our best writers almost never write for younger readers. With the singular and laudable exception of Michael Chabon -- whose most recent novel, "Summerland," is what book publishers call a "juvenile" -- our ostensibly serious novelists write only for adult readers, leaving the vast market for young people's books to those authors, some of them notably talented, who specialize i...
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