A Follow Up from "My Teacher Flunked the Planet" author Bruce Coville
Laura DeMaria
I had a real thrill this morning: in addition to lovely messages from readers, I received an email from the author of My Teacher Flunked the Planet himself, Bruce Coville.
As I shared in my previous post, I came across My Teacher Flunked the Planet by chance this summer and wrote an essay about it on Medium, called What Early 90s Teen Lit Taught Me about Unity in 2020 (please read, and give it a clap!).
I found Bruce’s contact and sent him an email last night. Just a simple message to let him know his book moved me. And lo and behold, this morning I had a note back. Not only that, but he had tweeted my article to his over 4,000 followers.
In his follow up tweet, he writes, “Truth is, I got away with a lot in this book because no one was paying much attention to the fourth book in a paperback original SF series. The politics and philosophy of the book are an open secret between me and about two million kids.”
Via email, Bruce shared his gratitude for my having written about his book and said that it is arguably the most important one he ever wrote. Wow.
So anyway, that was super cool. Super cool, indeed.
If you haven’t yet, read the article, What Early 90s Teen Lit Taught Me about Unity in 2020.