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. JohnsonThe House on Mango Street, by Sandra CisnerosAre You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy BlumeMidnight’s Children, by Salman RushdieThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, edited by The New York Times MagazineThe Hill We Climb, by Amanda GormanThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, read by a full cast@NBCChigacoToday on InstagramDowners Grove Public Library FoundationThe Essentials: Banned Books and the First Amendment, by Donna SeamanFahrenheit 451, by Ray BradburyPBS BooksRoman Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Todd PortnowitzRead-alikes: Expats and Other Outsiders, by Donna SeamanOur Strangers, by Lydia DavisThe Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, by Liza Mundy
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