‘The Hunger Games’ Is a Clarion Call of the Social-Media Generation

The 8-to-18 set devouring ‘The Hunger Games’ is media-savvy in a very new way, writes Glynnis MacNicol.

Published Mar. 31 2012 4:45AM EDT

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Is Sandra Fluke a modern-day Katniss Everdeen?

The thought came to me after I dove into The Hunger Games last week: all three novels of Suzanne Collins’s bestselling trilogy, plus the movie adaptation of the first book.

Katniss is the books’ 16-year-old heroine.

Glynnis MacNicol

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‘The Hunger Games’ Is a Clarion Call of the Social-Media Generation

The 8-to-18 set devouring ‘The Hunger Games’ is media-savvy in a very new way, writes Glynnis MacNicol.

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Glynnis MacNicol