"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Wake Now in the Fire is about book banning and student protests, sensitive subjects on the right. While the book itself hasn’t been banned or challenged, it certainly could be, and I expect that somehow, somewhere, forces of darkness are mobilizing against it. It feels like a banned book, it looks like a banned book, and it reads like a banned book. Therefore I review it as such.
October is Banned Books Month. The first week, October 1-7, is Banned Books Week. Am I sensing a theme here? I started the first day of Banned Books Week with a New York Times op-ed titled This Is Why I Hate Banned Books Week, a recap of the tired talking points book banners spew forth […]
“Let’s Talk About It,” published in 2021, is in the crosshairs of book banners.
“Beartown” repeats the f-word 83 times? The amount of time we spend in the locker room with the Beartown boys’ hockey team, I’m surprised it’s not 83 million times!