Jason Reynolds: On writing a tender love story from a teen boy’s POV
Podcast |
Q with Tom Power
Publisher |
CBC
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Nov 06, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:33:28

When the award-winning author Jason Reynolds was visiting a juvenile detention centre, he asked what kind of books young boys checked out the most. The answer really surprised him: romance novels. Jason realized that young men have a real hunger to learn about love, sensitivity and intimacy. That sparked the idea for his latest book, "Twenty-Four Seconds from Now,” which follows a Black teen boy who’s about to have sex with his girlfriend for the first time. Jason joins Tom Power to talk about the book and how he’s writing the stories he wishes he had growing up.

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