The Brothers Delacorte family reunion

I mentioned this briefly in my profile of author Daniel Kraus earlier this month, but a few young-adult authors here in town have banded together to create a fake family, dedicated to inspiring boys (a typically tough demographic) to read more literature. The Brothers Delacorte unites Kraus, James Kennedy and Adam Selzer, all three young authors on the Delacorte YA imprint, and not one of the bunch afraid to don a black turtleneck. I profiled Kennedy last year when his The Order of Odd-Fish hit stands, and Selzer's Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps is currently sitting on our to-read shelf.

Tonight's the official release party for Kraus's The Monster Variations, and it's followed immediately by the Book Cellar's very cool YA book club for not-young adults: Never Too Old.