39 episodes
Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club Nicolle Okoren & Eden Wen
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4.5 • 23 Ratings
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Enter the controversial pages of banned and challenged books, of censorship and culture wars. Join Nicolle Okoren and Eden Wen twice a month as they read, discuss and understand the books and authors that communities across the United States have historically tried—and are still currently trying—to keep out of the hands of children and teenagers.
burnthisbook.substack.com
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31. All Boys Aren't Blue, by George M. Johnson (2020)
References
* “Black Queer Author George M. Johnson’s Family Showed Up To Fight Back Against A Book Ban — And They Won” - Buzzfeed News
* “The queer survival and coming-of-age book I needed as a child” - Scalawag
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30. The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (2007)
References
* The Native Harvey Weinsteins (Blog)
* 'It Just Felt Very Wrong': Sherman Alexie's Accusers Go On The Record (NPR)
* American Genocide: A podcast about the crimes of Native American boarding schools (Illuminative)
Listen and subscribe to Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a rating and review on Apple Podcast. This helps others find us, which will promote our mission to make banned books more accessible to all readers.
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Rekindling: Dungeons & Dragons feat. Adventure AI
Today’s episode is a rerun of one of our favorite episodes. Nicolle and Eden discuss Dungeons & Dragons and the Satanic Panic with Adventure AI’s Jason Conforto, Tyler Crump, and Alex the Language Lord.
References
* It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic
* Stuff You Should Know Podcast: How Dungeons and Dragons Works
* Into the Dragon's Lair
Listen and subscribe to Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a rating and review on Apple Podcast. This helps others find us, which will promote our mission to make banned books more accessible to all readers.
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29. Where's Waldo? by Martin Handford (1987) feat. kids
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Bonus: What does a librarian even do? feat. Linea Kemsley
References
* https://www.ala.org/united/friends
Listen and subscribe to Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a rating and review on Apple Podcast. This helps others find us, which will promote our mission to make banned books more accessible to all readers.
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28. Beloved, by Toni Morrison (1987)
References
* Laura Plantation
* “My Grandmother’s Hands” - Spotify
Listen and subscribe to Burn This Book: A Banned Books Book Club. If you like what you hear, please consider giving us a rating and review on Apple Podcast. This helps others find us, which will promote our mission to make banned books more accessible to all readers.
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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit burnthisbook.substack.com
Customer Reviews
Love this podcast!
I love reading along with this podcast and finally reading a lot of classic books that I’d never read before then hearing their commentary in the show. It’s like a book club with two great friends. Amazing! :)
Fun, educational and timely!
A fun, educational, and timely podcast! With book bans spreading across the country, everyone should be paying attention and actually reading challenged books. This podcast is already one of my regulars.
Doesn’t Deliver
The description promises a podcast that discusses and understands banned books and authors, but I don’t feel like they made much effort to understand Shel Silverstein. They mentioned his 2 Grammy’s but didn’t know that one of them was for Where the Sidewalk Ends, which is actually one of his banned books. The amount of speculation and judgement about Silverstein and his personal life (and his feet?) felt disrespectful and gossipy. It took up more time than the actual discussion of why his book was banned. I don’t mind chatty podcasts; I enjoy them if the chat has some substance and I felt like that was missing here.