Interview with Kasey Meehan, PEN America

References* PEN America Freedom to Read Statement* PEN America book bans research and resources* PEN: Nearly 200 Percent Surge in School Book Bans During 2023-2024 School YearListen 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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

Republishing one of our favorite episodes for Christmas! We hope you are having a happy holidays and are building memories with your families. References:* “Reading Lois Lowry’s ‘The Giver’ as an Adult” in The Atlantic* 13th documentary* Animusic on YouTube* Prince Duck on SpotifyListen 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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

Show up and speak up! Join us with EveryLibrary’s Peter Bromberg and PEN America’s Tasslyn Magnusson who are seeing how book bans are affecting authors, libraries, and kids. References* Fight for the First* Authors Against Book Bans* Let Utah ReadRecommended booksActivism* They Came for Our Schools, By Mike Hixenbaugh* That Librarian, by Amanda Jones* The Three Languages of Politics, by Arnold KlingBanned books* Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson* Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe* Blood Water Paint, by Joy McCullough* Anything book by Lesléa NewmanListen 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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

ReferencesListen 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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

Referenceshttps://dvan.org/2019/08/book-review-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/https://geoffwhaley.com/2020/08/14/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-ocean-vuong/https://fictionwritersreview.com/review/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous-by-ocean-vuong/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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

This season…* On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong* Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou* Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson* Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson* Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer* Gossip Girl (#1), by Cecily von Ziegesar* Bone, by Jeff Smith* The Agony of Alice (#1), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor* For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway* The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende* Song of Solomon, by Toni MorrisonIf there’s a book you want to talk about this season, contact us at [email protected]. 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. Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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

Please join usReferences* Adriana E. Ramirez on why readers love ‘The Hate U Give’ - LA Times*https://youtu.be/OOac2vjHuyY*http://www.apache-stronghold.com/ *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1gNYFka1-s&t=1637s*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhmpQkEj3I8Listen 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.Follow us on Instagram to see what we’re reading next. Read along with us! 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