Best-selling author Becky Albertalli talks about the impact of her young adult novel "Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda" that was adapted to film as "Love, Simon." The story centers on Simon Spier, a gay teenage boy in high school who is forced to balance his friends, family and the blackmailer threatening to out him to the entire school, while simultaneously attempting to discover the identity of the anonymous classmate with whom he has fallen in love online. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8340

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