Seven Minutes In Heaven

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret author Judy Blume was awarded this year's National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters. My fifth-grade best friend Melissa and I reread my copy of Are You There God so many times that we had passages memorized. Remember when Margaret stuffed her bra and then was forced to play seven minutes in heaven with her crush at a birthday party? The horror! All Things Considered interviews Blume about the award here.