Brendan Kiely is a New York Times bestselling author of primarily young adult and middle grade books including novels and nonfiction books such as Sole Survivor, All American Boys, Tradition, The Last True Love Story, and The Gospel of Winter. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, received several awards including a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, and was twice selected as a Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults. And his nonfiction book, The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege, was a School Library Journal, Bank Street, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year. He’s currently the writer in residence at Seton Hall University.
My featured song is "Hey Jake”, from the album East Side Sessions. Spotify link.
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AUTHORFEST (26:01):
- The Last True Love Story — Prologue (28:09)
DISCUSSION SEGMENTS:
- (04:04) An accidental start in YA and middle-grade writing — teaching high school in New York City and writing from 5 a.m. before school
- (06:08) The Gospel of Winter — the Boston Globe / Spotlight abuse scandal told through a teenager deciding whether to tell the truth
- (10:36) All American Boys, co-written with Jason Reynolds — institutional racism, policing, and two boys from the same school and town
- (13:39) Young adult vs. middle grade — how much the categories matter, and how they overlap and scaffold young readers
- (17:22) Young readers today — screens, devices and distraction, and whether kids still read
- (21:13) The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege — what touring All American Boys showed him about unearned social advantage, including the GI Bill example
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