a teen journalist and that was something that I did. You’ve said that Off the Record is the most personal book you’ve written.
I didn’t really expect to see characters like me until I got a little older, so I decided to write books about my experiences so that teenagers like me could see them. These were romances and books about rich kids going to the beach and falling in love. A lot of the books I read didn’t even have Black characters, and I didn’t expect them to. Did you feel like your experiences were represented when you first began reading YA? Your books make readers feel really seen: Josie self-identifies as fat and has anxiety, and Simone from your first book, Full Disclosure, is HIV-positive. They didn’t get in trouble the way that Weinstein did, so how do we face their art?”īelow, the author talks about representation in YA, the pitfalls of Twitter, and what’s next for her. Harvey Weinstein’s takedown was an inspiration, “but also people like Woody Allen and Roman Polanski,” Garrett says.
Garrett didn’t just want to address the ongoing effort to oust abusive men from positions of power - she wanted to reckon with the work they leave behind.
But the author’s never been faced with the type of investigation that Josie takes on: a #MeToo exposé of a famed filmmaker whom Josie herself had once admired. “A lot of Josie’s experiences come from my experiences,” Garrett tells Bustle. Now, Garrett’s on the other side of the interview mic, telling everyone about her sophomore novel Off the Record, which centers on teen reporter Josie. The YA author and and NYU film student began her career at 13, interviewing celebrities for TIME for Kids she’s since written for the likes of MTV and the Huffington Post. At 21, Camryn Garrett is something of a veteran journalist.
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