Kat and Phoebe are joined by Jessa Crispin, literary critic and culture writer, to talk about dewy ingenues, the young-adultification of literature, and why that one guy on Book Twitter was screaming about worms.

Links:

• Jessa on age gaps in the Boston Review: Pathologizing Desire
• Jessa's essay on the Underground Railroad vs Normal People, both for children
• David Bowles' epic "disgusting worms" Twitter meltdown
• Kat's 2017 (but still relevant) primer for understanding YA's internecine conflicts: The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter
• Jessa's website 

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