Ypulse Book Essentials: Richard Wright, Stars Pack 'Book of Lies' Trailer, Youthful Wisdom

Editor's Note: Just a reminder that we will not be publishing Ypulse Books Friday due to the Labor Day holiday weekend. We'll be back with more coverage next Wednesday.

Native Son (Richard Wright's life and works discussed on NPR.)

- Book of Lies (Check out Brad Meltzer's new book's star-studded trailer.) (PopCandy)

- Scholastic encouraging gender stereotypes? (Chasing Ray is not happy with The Girls' Book of Glamour and The Boys' Book of Survival.)

- On the positive side… (Scholastic has launched a fun election '08 site for teachers and students)

- Random House's 'morality clause' (Cory Doctorow says no way, no how would he sign such a clause, and wasn't asked to, though Random House has added it as part of its standard contract with children's authors) (Boing Boing)

- Youthful Wisdom Press (publishes the creative writing efforts of kids.)

- Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara (Just got my copy. Can't wait to read this fact/trivia/information filled reference book about 50 of the most beloved books of all time.)

- David Levithan talks about Push (He's so cool, no?) (SLJ)

- Why we shouldn't be readiing Catcher in the Rye anymore (Anne Trubeck says there are newer, more relevant anti-heros out there in today's YA.) (Good) (Thanks Andrea!)

- All day Harry read-a thon (September 23rd) (CNET News.com)

- If only I were single… (Penguin launches a book-lovers dating site.) (Bookseller.com)

- Excitement for fall YA titles (USA Today)

- Kindle and the textbook industry (The perfect couple may finally be getting engaged. And, 'Amazon confirms student version of Kindle') (Ars Technica) (Tech Crunch)

- I loooooove this 'Cover Story' about I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. (In my humble opinion, they soooooo chose the right one!) (Melissa Walker)

- In case you missed them (Jezebel's Lizzie Skurnick re-reads Flowers in the Attic and A Little Princess)

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