Bookrageous Takes On Banned Books

2011 at 5am     Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky

In celebration of Banned Books Week, Josh and I got together with special guest Jeff from The Reading Ape to discuss our favorite banned books, the ones we’ve never read, why banning sucks, and the challenge of determining when a person is ready to read a certain book. It was a surprisingly fun conversation for such a serious topic, but that’s what Bookrageous is about. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to listen, subscribe, and let us know what you’d like to hear about in the future.

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Podcast Powered By PodbeanShow notes with all books and references discussed after the jump. 

Bookrageous Episode 26; Banned BooksIntro Music; 1976 — RJD2

What We’re Reading

Rebecca

[1:16] The Starboard Sea, Amber Dermont, March 2012

[4:02] The Revisionists, Thomas Mullen

[4:42] Sex at Dawn, Ryan & Jetha

Jeff

[6:47] I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck

[8:52] The Funny Man, John Warner

[10:35] How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, Stanley Fish

[12:47] Orality and Literacy, Walter Ong (ebook)

[13:50] Jeff’s Wonkometer Scale: Malcolm Gladwell – 2, Freakonomics – 5, Martin Heidegger – 10

Josh

[14:27] Habibi, Craig Thompson

[14:52] Ghost Lights, Lydia Millet, October 2011

[17:20] Cabin, Lou Ureneck (started as a blog for NY Times)

[18:02] All the Way Home, Building a Home with My Husband

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Intermission; Freedom — Jimi Hendrix
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Banned Books

[21:25] Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

[23:17] Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

[24:47] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

[31:08] Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

[32:58] Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson

[33:36] Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut; Twenty Boy Summer, Sarah Ockler

[35:33] Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews

[40:00] Most Frequently Challenged Books list from the ALA, Banned Books Week website, stats on challenges at the ALA’s website

[44:20] The Color Purple, Alice Walker

[50:01] Maus, Art Spiegelman

[50:30] Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence

[52:02] that Amazon/pedophilia e-book thing

[55:45] Amazon & the LGBT deranking issue

[57:22] gay relationships in YA novels under attack

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Outro; 1976 — RJD2

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Banned Books Week 2008: fREADom!In Which I Read from My Favorite Banned BookIn Praise of Banned Books, day 8: Fahrenheit 451In Praise of Banned Books, day 6: The Bluest EyeIn Praise of Banned Books, day 5: The Things They Carried         Filed Under Bookrageous2 Comments  -->

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Sonya onSeptember 29th, 2011 10:30 am

Orality and Literacy was THE takeaway book I read in grad school. It reshaped my perception about how written language changed humanity. That sounds very hyperbolic, I know. But I still think about that book and will re-read passages every once in a while.

Kristen onSeptember 29th, 2011 6:02 pm

I am new here, Hi! Looking around. i love books. and i like your banned books blog! thank you very much!
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