Slate Nailed It: YA and Detective Fiction Are for Rubes
By Lyndsay Faye
June 10, 2014An article in Slate by Ruth Graham that appeared last week decrying the popularity of YA fiction among adult readers has created quite the backlash from other media forums (including to name a few, Esquire, Flavorwire, CNN, and the Washington Post). While both sides of the issue—scholarly proponents of a higher culture of readership and…