Bad Behaviour

This week in the New Yorker Magazine, Rebecca Mead writes about Alloy Entertainment, which produces best-selling books for teens and tweens, and Daniel Zalewski writes about parent-child dynamics in picture books. Here Zalewski and Mead talk with Blake Eskin about how these books represent parents, what they read as children, and the difference between “Gossip Girl” and “The House of Mirth.”

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Source: The New Yorker