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How do we improve the absolute state of YA literature? In the past YA books meant
>Jack London
>Arthur Conan Doyle
>Lewis Carroll
>Aesop
>Andersen
>Grimm brothers
and many other high quality novelists and writers. Today YA books are basically elaborate Harry Potter fanfics. Is there any avenue for change? Are there any contemporary writers who write books for young people that are more in line with what London et al. were doing?

>> No.19096906

>>19096894
Not as long as female 20 somethings keep buying them and publishers keep catering to them instead of actual young adults. I personally think it's gone too far to ever return to what it once was.

>> No.19096913

>>19096906
YA literature for women used to be of better quality as well. Contemporary shit can't compare to Anne of Green Gables, Little Women and so on

>> No.19097377

>>19096894
They need to be written and published by people in a different country from a different culture. The cultural rot of the elite in the west has taken hold of YA and there is no salvaging it.

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-victims-and-critics-speak

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-a-twitter-mob-destroyed-a-young-immigrant-female-authors-budding-career

>> No.19097408

>>19097377
>https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-victims-and-critics-speak
Can we genocide these human beings already? Is killing these twitter cultists the only way to save humanity?

>> No.19097418

I have a feeling that those books were the exception back in the day as well. I have no knowledge about this.

>> No.19097577

The fact that a "YA" label has been coined and embraced is a defeat in itself.

>> No.19097581

>>19096894
Forbid women from learning how to read

>> No.19097588

>>19097577
Atleast it works as a containment label for all the absolute retards and social justice cultists out there.

>> No.19097635

>>19096894
Men rarelly go to bookstores to buy newly published titles. So the only way to sell new books in to catter to the femoid audience.
The only way to fix YA is if men started writing and reading YA.

>> No.19097761

>>19096894
By writing books that don't suck. Simple as

>> No.19097876

>>19097581
This is the way

>> No.19097929

>>19097635
Vicious cycle innit
>be man
>walk into a bookstore on occasion
>immediately bombarded with racks full of titles like White Rage, White Stink, White Refusal to Buy This Book
>maybe this whole book readin' ain't my thing
>turn 360 degrees and walk out

>> No.19098259

>>19096894
Some of these are children authors