Celebrating Mothers Day — good idea or selling out? Has the time come for time-outs? How parenting is like being Batman. (Guess which one of us came up with that.) The scourge of “idea debt” for writers, and how to break out of it. Plus: Barry has a book on the list of the 50 Best YA Novels of all time!Links:

  • The Inventor of Mother's Day Disowned the Holiday, and So Should We All - The Atlantic
  • "You know, like Caine in Kung Fu"
  • Janet Lansbury
  • Time's Up for 'Timeout' - The Atlantic
  • Americans’ Opinions On Spanking Vary By Party, Race, Region And Religion | FiveThirtyEight
  • Imagining your future projects is holding you back.
  • Scriptnotes, 296: Television with Damon Lindelof
  • Amulet (comics) - Wikipedia
  • The Leftovers (TV Series 2014– ) - IMDb
  • Boy Toy on Booklist's 50 Best YA Books of All Time
  • BooklistYA on Twitter
  • Rate us on iTunes

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