In this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to four people addressing banned books in different ways: Cortney Hall and Matt Rodrigues from NBC Chicago Today’s Banned Book Club; Amanda ReCupido, Vice President of the Downers Grove Public Library Foundation and chair of the committee for their freedom to read fundraising gala; and Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman, who shares a Booklist feature about censorship as well as a few books she’s been loving recently.
Banned Books Week is October 1 – 7 this year—how are you celebrating?
Here's what we talked about on the pod:
All Boys Aren’t Blue, by George M. Johnson
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, edited by The New York Times Magazine
The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, read by a full cast
@NBCChigacoToday on Instagram
Downers Grove Public Library Foundation
The Essentials: Banned Books and the First Amendment, by Donna Seaman
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
PBS Books
Roman Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Todd Portnowitz
Read-alikes: Expats and Other Outsiders, by Donna Seaman
Our Strangers, by Lydia Davis
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, by Liza Mundy
