Crushes, cliques, fumbling firsts and countless passed notes -- high school is fertile literary ground.
But rarely have so many of its defining moments and mortifications been explored so exuberantly as in When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School, a new collection of 25 original essays edited by John McNally. Juliana Baggott, Erika Krouse, Lisa Gabriele and 22 others pick up where John Hughes left off.
And if that's not enough teenage angst and humiliation, you can always check back in with the Get Mortified series -- that reliable mix of shame and laughter.
written on Wednesday Apr 18, 2007
puppy love,
rejection,
book.
