Welcome to RED the Book!

The first book of essays by the next generation of great American writers -- teenage girls -- and this, the website and full-on social network that makes it the first living book.
 
RED THE BOOK: THE NEWS
***The RED authors are the Huffington Post's new teen political and social pundits!*** We'll be commenting on the issues now through November. And maybe then some. BRAND-NEW 4/25: Cindy Morand's!  
  
FIVE STARS "Red is a revelation." — Time Out New York's Best of 2007 
 
Every one of RED's 58 authors has her own blog and profile here. Get to know these brave and talented writers
 

Recent and upcoming events:

"This is the best reading I've ever been to." - SMITHmag.net
"...an extraordinary reading, unlike any I've ever been to." - Hallmark Magazine
 
TONIGHT!!!: MON, MAY 12, 7:00-9:00p (A free, fun night, on the other side of Mother's Day)
RED at the Outback Teen Center; New Canaan, CT
 
04/17/08 RED is proudly a part of national OPERATION TEEN BOOK DROP with www.readergirlz.com and the Young Adult Library Services Association!
•A particularly wonderful Lip-Sticking blog on RED (4/14), featuring Sam Lewin and Jordyn Turney
•RED on WOR's The Joey Reynolds Show (3/29). Listen to Carey Dunne, Elizabeth Metzger, Olive Panter, and Maya Popa tell it like it is—on old-school late-night NYC radio.
•RED on Salon: Stop picking on the teenagers by Amy Goldwasser (3/14)
•RED on KWMR's "Parent Talk" (3/12)
 
RED THE BOOK: THE TOUR is parked at home in New York. For now. Invite us out, and we just might take you up on it. Eyes on more readings and writing workshops in New York, Chicago, working on Boston. Watch this space for dates. See the full list of RED events
 
 

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 estimated 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...

  • I can't think of a good title, so this will have to do.

    This is just a list of my life since May 1st. Yeah, there's a week or so missing there since my last update. But that was just a week of school, rehearsal and not enough sleep. Lists seems pretty darn good to me. Wednesday, April 30th: • Urinetown opened. It rocked a lot. We actually pulled it together. Thursday, May 1st: • Turned 18. • Sent off...
    Posted to amylicious! (Weblog) by amyh on 05-12-2008
  • family v. relatives

    Hey friendlies. You’re probably all like, What’s up? Do you realize you haven’t wrote in days ? When usually we can’t get rid of your stupid yammering! Are you okay? Are you dead? Yammering: (v) See ‘yakking’, also ‘blabbering.’ Well, no. I am not dead. I am fine. Just busy. Like for instance, there is the fact that I started working again. Yeah, I...
    Posted to Anti-Cinderella, Pro-Belle (Weblog) by jordynt on 05-12-2008
  • Am I Crazy?

    Sorry for being a terrible blogger. Lately I've also been a terrible student, daughter, friend, and blog reader, among other things, so it's not just this part of my life that is suffering. Yay me. Ahem. Anyway, I promise better posts at some point in the future, but for now, just something I don't really want to share with any of my friends...
  • a whole summer to do anything i want. yaaaaay.

    When is it my turn to have the fun?! And I'm not talking about the "stay up all night and party my ass off" kind of fun; I'm talking more along the lines of the "feel like i'm actually doing something worthwhile with my life" kind of fun. But the good news is that I have a whole summer to figure this awkward feeling out...
    Posted to zulayr (Weblog) by zulayr on 05-11-2008
  • messages from the outer limits of our universe

    This was the phone I had before I bought the shiny new Env. Do you guys see it? Do you see the alien phone? Its outer-spacey blue color and diminutive size? Well! That is just a trick, just a slight of hand. Because, you see, THIS PHONE WAS MADE BY REAL ALIENS. FROM THE OUTER LIMITS OF OUR UNIVERSE! How do I know this? Because of the sound it makes...
    Posted to Anti-Cinderella, Pro-Belle (Weblog) by jordynt on 05-09-2008

See for yourself, meet the authors...

Catch Red the Book: the Tour! Up next: 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