Minh is the author of Let Me Finish! a debut picture book that will be published by Disney-Hyperion in 2016. By day he works in early childhood policy and in 2010 helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History (the only place you can both support youth creative writing and get your daily supply of unicorn tears). He also writes about children’s lit at Bottom Shelf Books and occasionally for the Huffington Post and others. Follow him on Twitter @bottomshelfbks.
Inspired by Jimmy Kimmel’s always funny Celebrities Read Mean Tweets, I thought it’d be fun to imagine these authors reading their own one-star reviews. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but a bad review can really sting, man.
One Star Review of James Baldwin’s GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
One Star Review of THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON
One Star Review of Jonathan Franzen’s FREEDOM
One Star Review of Flannery O’Connor’s WISE BLOOD
One Star Review of Toni Morrison’s BELOVED
One Star Review of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
One Star Review of Joan Didion’s THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
One Star Review of Ernest Hemingway’s THE SUN ALSO RISES
One Star Review of Junot Diaz’s THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
One Star Review of J. D. Salinger’s THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
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