Youth or consequences

Girl Authority, "This Is My Day" (mp3)

Jake Brennan, "What Joe Strummer Said"

•   YO, JONNY! THE LOVE SONG OF JONNY VALENTINE  |  February 05, 2013
  Sometime after becoming a YouTube megastar and crashing into the cult of personality that has metastasized in contemporary society, Teddy Wayne's 11-year-old bubblegum idol Jonny Valentine is hanging out in his dressing room getting a blow job from a girl who doesn't even like his music.
•   LENA DUNHAM AND HBO GET IT RIGHT  |  April 13, 2012
  When a new television show chronicling the lives of young women arrives, it tends to come packaged with the promise that it will expertly define them, both as a generation and a gender.
•   EUGENIDES'S UPDATED AUSTEN  |  October 12, 2011
  For his long-awaited third novel, Jeffrey Eugenides goes back to look at love in the '80s — and apparently decides that it's a lot like love in the early 19th century.
•   REVIEW: RINGER  |  September 08, 2011
  Sixty seconds into the CW's new psychological thriller Ringer, star Sarah Michelle Gellar is seen running from a masked attacker in the darkness.
•   LOVE'S LEXICOGRAPHER  |  February 10, 2011
  As the editorial director at Scholastic, David Levithan is surrounded by emotional stories about adolescents. Being overexposed to such hyperbolic feelings about feelings could easily turn a writer off pursuing such ventures himself — despite the secrets he may have picked up along the way.