Los ‘Sensitivity Readers’, revisores de los prejuicios en los textos
Brújula Global | By Alessandro Leone | September 13, 2021
“Esta nueva profesión, que se está expandiendo en Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido, busca preservar la integridad de las obras literarias y cinematográficas a través de sugerencias para que los autores eviten estereotipos o contenidos ofensivos.”
Authors Love Bookstores presents Melissa Scholes Young with Loyalty Bookstores
A Mighty Blaze | By Hannah Oliver Depp and Joe Moldover | August 18, 2021
“Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood, as well as the editor of the anthologies Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity. She joins us along with Hannah Oliver Depp of Loyalty Bookstores to talk all about writing, editing, and bookselling during uncertain times.”
Missouri-Born Writer Explores Sisterhood, Survival And Political Divides In Her New Novel
KCUR | By Anne Kniggendorf | July 10, 2021
“Novelist Melissa Scholes Young’s new book “The Hive” is about four sisters putting the pieces together after their father bankrupts them and then dies during the Great Recession.”
Missouri-Born Writer Explores Sisterhood, Survival And Political Divides In Her New Novel
KSMU | By KSMU | July 10, 2021
“The Fehler family isn’t quite a fictionalized version of the family Melissa Scholes Young grew up in. But like the Fehlers, her family ran a fourth-generation pest control business.”
Doomsday Prepping Goes Mainstream
1A | By NPR | June 30, 2021
“Doomsday prepping is no longer a fringe obsession. The survivalist movement, which was long stereotyped as made up of gun-wielding, right-wing older white men, is evolving.”
Q&A: Writer Melissa Scholes Young on New Novel, ‘The Hive’
The Daily Yonder | By Olivia Weeks | June 25, 2021
“Melissa Scholes Young is a writer, novelist, and associate professor of Literature at American University. Her second novel, The Hive, was released earlier this month. A Hannibal, Missouri native, both of Scholes Young’s novels are set in rural parts of her home state.”
Melissa Scholes Young Reads a Passage from The Hive
Literary Hub | By Damian Barr’s Literary Salon | June 23, 2021
“In this episode, Melissa Scholes Young reads from The Hive. After Robbie Fehler’s sudden death, his wife and daughters unite in their struggle to save their pest control company’s finances and the family’s future. To survive, they must overcome a political chasm that threatens a new civil war as the values that once united them now divide the very foundation they’ve built. Through alternating point-of-views, grief and regret gracefully give way to the enduring strength of the hive.”
Melissa Scholes Young Is Creating Buzz With The Hive
Washington City Paper | By Hannah Grieco | June 10, 2021
“D.C. is waking up after a long pandemic year, cautiously but surely, and local writers are eager to connect—both with each other and with their readers, who they’ve often struggled to reach during such an isolating time.”
For Melissa Scholes Young, Writing About Small-Town Missouri Is A Path To Empathy
St. Louis on the Air | By | June 9, 2021
“Melissa Scholes Young’s new novel, her second, focuses on a family-run pest control business in small-town Missouri. Young knows of what she writes: She was raised in small-town Missouri — by a family that ran a pest control business.”
The Ms. Q&A: Melissa Scholes Young on Feminism Rising from Rural Roots
Ms. Magazine | By Corinne Ahrens | June 8, 2021
“In politics, academia, pop culture and the arts, a very narrow image of rural America has been carelessly constructed and blindly reused to the point of sweeping generalizations overshadowing reality. We often see rural characters on the screen (think: films like Deliverance or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, as well as shows like Buckwild and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo) and on the page who are backwards: racist, homophobic, misogynistic, uneducated, uncultured, violent and even inbred—perpetuating the idea that everyone in rural communities must be some combination of those stereotypes.”
Debut Novel ‘Flood’ Set In Mark Twain’s Hometown
The State of Things | By Frank Stasio | August 1, 2017
“Host Frank Stasio speaks with Scholes Young about crafting parallels between Twain’s stories and her own narrative fiction. They also discuss her research into the Mississippi River’s unpredictable flow patterns.”
Twain Was Here: Melissa Scholes Young Publishes Debut Novel
AU Literature | By Gregg Sangillo | June 20, 2017
“Melissa Scholes Young grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. If Hannibal doesn’t ring a bell for those outside the Show Me State, it was the boyhood hometown of Mark Twain. The presence of Twain—fabled storyteller, fountain of wit, American icon—still permeates this 18,000-person Midwestern town.”
Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Scholes Young
Cafe MFA | By Vince Granata | November 16, 2016
“One of the biggest challenges for me was to imagine what it’s like to leave, to develop a separate identity, and then try to return. I haven’t lived in Hannibal since I was seventeen-years-old, but I do know it would be a soft place for me to land if I needed to, unlike the reception Laura Brooks gets in Flood. It’s also challenging to convey what it’s like to be from a place like Hannibal. My roots run deep. The mythology of Mark Twain permeates my work. I’ve always known where I was from. I have a family that would welcome me back, even if they shake their heads while I unpack my bags.”
