Day 5 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Kiese Laymon
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.
To wrap up Banned Books in The Stacks, we've brought back friend of the podcast Kiese Laymon to help us make sense of this entire week of programming. Kiese is the author of the banned book, Heavy, as well as Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. We talk today about how it feels to have your work banned, what children have a right to know, and what else Kiese sees as tied to this wave of book bans.
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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
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
Seeing White (Scene on Radio)
Men (Scene on Radio)
"Missouri school district bans Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye'" (Danielle Campoamor, Today)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
All About Love by bell hooks
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
All The She Carried by Tiya Miles
The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The 1619 Project (The New York Times)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
"'The Great Believers,' 'Heavy: An American Memoir,' receive 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction" (American Library Association)
"Day 1-- Banned Books in The Stacks with Katrina Stokes and Thursday Williams" (The Stacks)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Freedom Means... (Grace Aldrich & Emma Redden)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington D.C.)
Roots (ABC, 1977)
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