Welcome to RED the Book!

58 real teenage lives, written by 58 real teenage girls

That's RED as in not pink...


"It's high time people stopped writing, talking, and worrying about teenage girls and just let those girls speak for themselves."

— Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love


"Every few generations, amongst the old idealistic windbags, there will come a generation that works to repair what the old idealistic windbags have broken."

— RED author Amy Hunt, 18, on the Huffington Post

They're publising all over the place: Read RED authors Sara Harari's "My Turn" essay in NEWSWEEK and Jocelyn Pearce's amazing travel piece on Morocco on TEEN INK!


NEW for the Holidays!!!:
The launch of RED the Paperback
and
RED the Book Drive!


We're just back from Boston-Cambridge-Wellesley: Read about it in the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix * * * WATCH FOR TOUR DATES 09, NYC to Suba, Kenya! * * *  "Red is a revelation. We really wish [it] had been around when we were in high school. Alas..." — Time Out New York "An awesome compilation...these girls are seriously amazing. Not your typical reading" — L Magazine


           Inside the Mind of the Teenage Girl on New York Magazine's Vulture blog

                               Yahoo! Shine's 10 Best Gifts for the Literary Fan

                                       BuzzSugar's Teen Girl Gift Guide

                                           The Advocate Gift Guide

                                            RED reviewed on Examiner.com

                                            Review and excerpt on Elle.com

                                        RED the Book Drive on DailyCandy     

                              And proudly introducing RED's first charity partners!

   

RED the Book: the Tour

"This is the best reading I've ever been to." - SMITHmag.net

"...an extraordinary reading, unlike any I've ever been to." - Hallmark Magazine

"I attended a [RED] panel discussion...I'm a bit inspired tonight." - The Love Spot


Meet the authors (and Rosario Dawson and Francine Prose while you're there), support good causes, and pick up the best holiday gift $14 can buy...


NEXT: RED 2009!!! Watch this space for readings, writing workshops, and play performances, including late-January in Providence, RI, February in NYC and Ann Arbor, MI—and Suba, KENYA, to Anchorage, AK!


See the full list of RED events

 

RED the Book: the Issues, the President-Elect

RED author Dani Cox, 13, on the usage of Palin as a verb 

- Q&A with Eliza Appleton in the Sunday Boston Globe Magazine

- Zoe Mendelson's important op-ed—on college financial-aid reform—in the Sunday LA Times


*****The RED authors are the Huffington Post's teen political and social pundits*****

Check out "A Report from the Interracial Generation," by Cammi Henao, Erika Kwee, Zoe Mendelson, Cindy Morand, Zulay Regalado, and Jordyn Turney.

 

RED the Book: the Videos

Please select a RED author (below the video player) to see her read at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC:


Or watch these authors and more on RED's YouTube channel!
  
Every one of RED's 58 authors has her own blog and profile here. Get to know these brave and talented writers!

RED the Book: The Editor

 
 

What the critics are saying...

"Unsparingly frank and perceptive, the essays in Red take on politics, pop culture, and body image. Long underestimated and undervalued by society, [teenage girls] emerge as literature and society's great hope." - Vanity Fair
 
"I was stunned by the speed with which each of these stories pulled me in...funny, smart, dark, observant. If Red is any indication, then the kids are alright." - Salon
 
"The fifty-eight essays run the gamut--from laugh-out-loud funny to outrageous to heartrending. But each is astounding in its honesty and wisdom. The authors are complicated and real, with interests and concerns of immense scope. A surefire hit for girls and for everyone who thinks girls are interesting."- VOYA 
 
Red the Book is..."A must-have" in Teen Vogue; Newsweek's Book of the Week; Family Circle's Book of the Month; and "Brilliant/Highbrow" on New York Magazine's Approval Matrix.
 
 

What the authors are saying...

  • My one not-really resolution

    I know I always say that I've been away too long, I'll start blogging regularly again, it's just that exciting stuff doesn't tend to happen to me that often. Oh, screw it. I don't have to blog about exciting things. I can just write about whatever comes to mind. I think I'm just partially afraid of starting to write things that...
    Posted to amylicious! (Weblog) by amyh on 01-02-2009
  • my thoughts on gaza and the israel/palestine conflict

    Hundreds of Palestinians have lost their lives in the past few days. Men, women, and children have died. Many of those who died were not fighters. They were schoolchildren. They were mothers. They were fathers. They were sisters and brothers and best friends. They were in love. They were loved. They had lives that were ended by this violence. Two young...
  • Waffle House

    I’d never been to Waffle House. I’d heard that it was smoky and dirty and “totally sketch,” to use the words of one friend, especially after midnight. It was 12:30 AM, and my friend was driving me home from a birthday party, when I said, “Let’s go to Waffle House.” Naturally, this suggestion was met with, “Why?” I answered, “Because it’s an experience...
  • Gaia Scholarship

    This is a short, almost 200 word essay I wrote for a college scholarship. The question was, "What do you love, and how do (or will) your actions demonstrate this. my response: I love people, experience, and adventure. New horizons and opportunies are out there in the world and simply staying in one place will not get me there. I wish to absorb...
    Posted to sarahmo (Weblog) by sarahmo on 12-26-2008
  • Exciting News

    Two bits of exciting news, one writing and one college. First, the writing--my piece about a trip to Morocco is currently first rated on Teen Ink website's travel and culture section (http://www.teenink.com/raw/Travel/) ! Read it at http://www.teenink.com/raw/Travel/article/59459/Bienvenue-Dans-Notre-Pays/. College news: I got accepted to Fordham...

See for yourself, meet the authors...

Catch Red the Book: the Tour! Up next (and last for 08): NEW YORK

Did someone’s essay in Red particularly speak to you? Speak to its author, right here, right now!

“I just hope people don’t feel like this for the rest of their lives.”
Sam Lewin

“Someone once said that I should kill myself I’m so fat. Not to my face, no, but they meant for me to hear it.”
Amy Hunt