It seems to be the received wisdom that books angled at the younger set are simply not quite the same thing as books aimed at adults: not quite as challenging to write, not quite as challenging to read. And it is my boring yet constant duty to explain that books for younger readers are some of the most challenging and well-written material out there.
-Maureen Johnson, The Guardian, February 27, 2012
Authors who write for young adults are taking creative risks — with narrative structure, voice and social commentary — that you just don’t see as often in the more rarefied world of adult fiction.
-Patricia McCormick, New York Times, March 29, 2012
Absolutely! Far from being adult literature’s red-headed stepchild, YA is actually its superior, accomplishing feats of intellectation never before witnessed. No consideration of length, difficulty, or subject matter holds YA back from exploring the infinite reaches, and dregs, of human thought. Therefore Pritchard Publishing is proud to announce the release of YA editions of the following books, which we anticipate will be huge sellers, just as soon as our art department can prepare cartoon dust jackets:
Gravity’s Rainbow
The 120 Days of Sodom
Slave Girl of Gor
The Torture Garden
The Man Without Qualities
Finnegans Wake
Sefer Yetzirah
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Mein Kampf
The Myth of the Twentieth Century
The Turner Diaries
American Psycho
The Satyricon
De Rerum Natura
The Sickness Unto Death
Das Kapital
Summa Theologica
The Recognitions
Monadology
Dianetics
Famine 1975!
The Faerie Queene
Troilus and Criseyde
The Mahabarata
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
The Human Use of Human Beings
Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson
The Robots’ Rebellion
Did Six Million Really Die?
The Unnamable
Tristram Shandy
Infinite Jest
Sexual Personae
Ubu Roi
The SCUM Manifesto
The NAMBLA Bulletins (Collected)
The Atrocity Exhibition
La Blue Girl