![]() And then, in the late '70s, the cycle just turned over again. And these books were grittier, more realistic - you had sex and drugs and family trouble. In the late '60s, you had the rise of something called "the problem novel" - the most famous example of that would be probably S.E. Jenny had a crush on Tommy, they kissed with closed mouths, the end. In the '40s and '50s and early '60s you had very wholesome books for girls called "malt shop novels". On the cyclical nature of trends in teen fiction She says many of the books may have been written off as unserious, but they reveal something meaningful about the time in which they were written. The protagonist usually faces a "small problem that seems very big to her" that gets wrapped up in about 100 pages. These books were focused on "heterosexual, white, middle-class, girl experiences," she says. She attempts to answer that question in Paperback Crush,a deep dive into teen lit of the '80s and '90s. what was the impact of reading all these books?" she says. ![]() ![]() A couple years ago, author Gabrielle Moss was feeling "worn down by the world" and found herself impulse buying an entire crate of "Sweet Valley High" books on eBay for $25.Īt first, Moss was binging these books - "Sweet Valley" and other series - as "nostalgic stress relief." Moss had devoured these pastel-colored paperbacks during her own preteen years - she estimates she read two per week. ![]()
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