Allison Saft: A Far Wilder Magic
Allison Saft, author of Down Comes the Night, discusses her latest romantic young adult fantasy novel, A Far Wilder Magic.
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The Cruel Optimism of the Gothic: Wealth, Class, and Villainy in YA Fiction
Cover art from Down Comes the Night (Wednesday Books) Villains institutionalizing heroines, crumbling, sentient houses, and a decadent social scene with a festering core: the Gothic is back in young adult fantasy, and with book deals slated into 2022, it shows no signs of going anywhere. It’s tempting, I think, to explain this Gothic resurgence as a symptom of YA fantasy leaning Darker & Edgier. The aesthetic conventions of the genre—crumbling manors, flickering candelabras, and brooding lords—certainly lend themselves well to that end. But this explanation hardly gets to the bottom of...
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