Paul lives in Washington Heights, NYC with three dogs and one wife, documentary moviemaker Risa Morimoto. Dial is publishing a third novel, Stay With Me, in the fall of 2011, a fourth, Burning Blue, a mystery, in 2012 and a fifth, tentatively a sci-fi romance, in 2013.

Twenty years to the day after Paul graduated Dartmouth, Penguin/Dial released his â€œfirstâ€ (twenty-fourth) novel Ten Mile River and then The Orange Houses a year later. These days his workshops focus on helping young men and women tell their life stories as they reach out to counselors, judges, admissions officers and potential employers. Paul started working with at-risk, incarcerated and special needs teens in 1989, with a concentration in conflict resolution workshops aimed at stemming the spread of violence, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS among young adults. The hardest and best work was the teaching. Meanwhile, he worked on the truck docks and in construction, as a dog trainer and a driver, teacher, tutor, EMT, butler, bartender, waiter, cook and dishwasher (alongside Vin Diesel). That novel and many others went unpublished. Three perfect end-of-summer reads by three perfect writers.īe sure to check out the last Photo of the Week with Jim Shepard.Paul began writing his first novel as he finished college, in 1988. Barry puts this psychologically messed up kid right in our faces and says, “Understand this guy,” and you know what? We do. Barry is fearless, like his protagonist Jazz, who wonders if he’s going to end up a serial killer, like his dad. Being around that kind of generosity makes me feel really good. Its themes include friendship, beauty/ugliness, and becoming independent of parents Stay With Me was named a Best Book of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews and the School Library Journal.

David is one of the most empathic people I know, and Every Day is a tour de force of empathy as his protagonist A, literally a lost soul, inhabits the lives of so many different people. Burning Blue is a pacy and compelling read for teens 14+ Told from two points of viewmale and femalethis is an ideal book for classroom discussion. Coe is just a beautiful soul, and I feel that so deeply in Tyrell, the way he sees the world, with sympathy and the courage not to be afraid of the ugly and the sad.

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga, Every Day by David Levithan and Tyrell by Coe Booth are amazing for many reasons, but I’m rereading them this time for voice. My favorite book is usually the one I’m reading, and I’m usually reading a few books at a time, in this case re-reading. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga, Every Day by David Levithan and Tyrell by Coe Booth Penguin Young Readers Group, Young Adult Fiction - 320 pages. Paul Griffin with three of his favorite books:

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