Day 2 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Alison Bechdel and Kelsey Reynolds
In light of the recent wave of book bannings taking place across The United States, The Stacks is spending all week talking with people who are impacted by the bannings, ranging from students to educators, authors, and more, to help us think about what is at stake and what we can do.
On today's episode we're joined by Alison Bechdel author of the frequently banned graphic memoir Fun Home, and she shares why she hates having to talk about the banning of books. Then we get into a conversation about the comfort level of students with high school English teacher Kelsey Reynolds. We also hear from TV writer and actor Brandon Kyle Goodman, and actress and podcast host Becca Tobin, about their favorite banned books.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
ALISON BECHDEL
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Fun Home (Lisa Kron, 2015)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"LGBTQ book ban proponent faces felony child molestation charge in Missouri" (Angela Yang, NBC News)
Twitter thread on Maus (Gwen C. Katz, @gwenckatz)
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Boy in the Striped in Pajamas by John Boyne
New, Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 1982)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
KELSEY REYNOLDS
New Harmony High School (New Orleans, LA)
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
All About Love by bell hooks
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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