065 - Book Challenges with Emily Knox

This week we’re joined by Emily Knox!

If you ever feel like books are conflated with ideas themselves, this is a good one to listen to. Why do books hold such power in a time where we assume nobody reads them? 

https://twitter.com/ejmknox

Book Banning in 21st-Century America - 9781442231689 

Foundations of Intellectual Freedom | ALA Store

Media mentioned

Books, censorship, and anti-intellectualism in schools

Passing (novel) - Wikipedia

The Lily goes 'Incognito': Why we made a zine about secrecy 

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military: Shilts, Randy: 9780449909171: Amazon.com

Reading the world in 196 books - BBC Culture

Foreword Reviews