The opening round nominees for the Goodreads Choice Awards have been announced. More than a dozen have previously appeared on Fanfare. Within each category, the nominees are sorted here to approximate very roughly how many Goodreads users have read the…
Gary Paulsen, 1939-2021
Gary Paulsen, author of wilderness-centered young adult fiction, has died at the age of 82. Paulsen is perhaps most famous for Hatchet, a tale of a teenage boy who crash-lands alone in the Canadian wilderness and must survive the summer with only the t…