Book Riot - The Podcast - Borrowed and Banned

Borrowed and Banned

09/29/23 • 26 min

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As an extra for you this week, we are delighted to share the first episode of Borrowed and Banned, a new podcast made by our friends at the Brooklyn Public Library. This 7-episode limited series, hosted by Virginia Marshall and Adwoa Adusei, tells the story of America's ideological war with its bookshelves by talking with students on the frontlines, the librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and the writers whose books have become a political battleground.

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Learn more about Borrowed and Banned at https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts

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Homer Was On One

Jeff and Rebecca talk about the National Book Award for Fiction longlist, a bunch of red states leaving the American Library Association, a teacher getting fired for teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, and Oprah's next surprising book club pick.

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Discussed in this episode:

First Edition!

The Book Riot Podcast Patreon

Deep Dive shout-out: The Bestseller List is Broken

Texas teacher fired after reading aloud from graphic novel of Anne Frank’s diary

Red states cut ties with ALA

Reading IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL

Project Gutenberg releases 5,000 public domain audiobooks w/ AI narration

Bidding opens Tues 9/26, in the Authors for Voices of Color auction to support WNDB

Oprah’s next pick is also 600+ pages long, and she’s only giving it a month

National Book Award Longlist

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Next Episode

A New Thing Under the Sun

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Book3 (and reactions to it), a survey about what libraries think of book bans, the U.S. suing Amazon, and more.

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