Welcome to RED the Book!
58 real teenage lives, written by 58 real teenage girls
That's RED as in not pink
"This book is amazing...a perfect blend of raw and original voices. Honest, hysterical, heartbreaking, uplifting—these essays come straight from the true teenage soul. Read this book!" — Paul Feig, creator of Freaks and Geeks and author, most recently, of Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut!
"A must have" — Teen Vogue
"After Red I was not the same. This book is a revolution." — Justine Kayumba, 16, New York
RED the Book: the News
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NEW, RED ALL OVER! Just published: RED author Maya-Catherine Popa writes (hilariously) about Dating A Liar (you too?) and Jordyn Turney considers The Millennials and the Myth of College on The Huffington Post; plus, the latest RED review, on YPulse.
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to the authors, cast, and crew of BLOODY RED HEART—RED for theater!—on a triumphant run at Los Angeles City College, April 24-May 2, directed by Leslie Ferreira. Watch this space for details on the next production.
The RED authors are Jezebel's Teen Girl Panel—seems the "Sexting" Panic is Overblown—and bloggers for the Huffington Post: Carey Dunne on How to Turn Teenage All-About-Me-ism into Altruism; Amy Hunt is Ticket Snubbed at the Inauguration, and Cindy Morand wonders, Since When Is Teen Pregnancy Cool?
Read Sara Harari's "My Turn" essay in NEWSWEEK
"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
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
See the full list of RED events
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!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...
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Not that I don't like the month of May. I adore it! My birthday starts it off, ending my first year of college made it grand, and I got to sit in a car for, like, half of it (which, okay, is not all that fun, actually). But seriously. It's still May? The end of May, sure. But it's still May?! This month feels as if it has dragged on foreverrrr...
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what makes a great book? also. still trying to figure out how to get the formatting right. it doesn't work with my browser.
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Yesterday, I turned nineteen. It was very low-key, no real celebration. My 9am class was cancelled, so I got to sleep in a little, and our quiz in anthropology was moved to Monday, so I didn't even need to review for that. I chilled for most of the day, went to the final All Ways of Loving meeting, and then went out to dinner with my friends. We...
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I should have posted this when it went up, but, ummm, Huffington Post. Me.
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here's a heckuva long blog post... I haven’t publicly announced this yet, but here goes… I don’t know when I decided I wanted to be a writer. To be honest I’m not even sure that I chose writing as much as writing chose me. I learned to read when I was, I don’t know, like three years old or something ridiculous like that. My parents bought me Hooked...