Belzhar

A place where the lost go to be found, where truths are uncovered, and the broken are healed.

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You have to be the writer that you always are.

Meg Wolitzer talks to NPR's Ask Me Another about the difference (and similarity) between writing YA and writing adult fiction. Listen to the episode here! 

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So I couldn’t help myself and bought this beauty today.

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Excellent decision. :)

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"An insightful, moving novel about grief and loss." 

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At book readings, audience members often ask how writers create characters. People want to know: Have writers actually experienced what their characters experienced? And if not, where do their ideas come from? My best, though incredibly vague, answer is that ideas come about through the long, slow process of living. Even if a character’s experiences aren’t your own, you are citizens of the same world, and you’ve had your experiences and witnessed other people’s too. While all that’s been going on, empathy has quietly been forming; it’s almost a chemical process.

Meg Wolitzer on writing Belzhar for TIME Magazine

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Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer The author of The Interestings made a winning entrée into YA with her captivating teen fantasy.

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My September project.  #FallintoBelzhar @penguinteen

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Books not only sometimes stay with you; they can become you.

The brilliant Meg Wolitzer weighs in on YA over at the New York Times 

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