Day 4 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Timya Wright and Azar Nafisi
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In light of the recent wave of book bannings taking place across The United of States, The Stacks is spending all week talking with people who are impacted by the bannings, ranging from students to educators, authors, and more, to help us think about what is at stake and what we can do.
We start today's episode with Mississippi high school student Timya Wright. Timya shares how she feels about adults telling young people what books they can have access to and the kinds of books she wishes were taught in school. Then we're joined by Azar Nafisi, the bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and the forthcoming Read Dangerously:The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. We talk about Azar's about the need to nurture freedom. We also hear about authors Rebecca Carroll, R. Eric Thomas, and R. O. Kwon's favorite banned books.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left |
| 0:08.5 | Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show |
| 0:16.2 | We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsey. Yes, that Rachel Lindsey the first black bachelor at also |
| 0:22.2 | She is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being |
| 0:26.4 | We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and |
| 0:33.7 | The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer, comedian director and of course the host of |
| 0:42.6 | Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast |
| 0:46.6 | We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club |
| 0:52.6 | One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams |
| 0:57.7 | It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out |
| 1:14.7 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them |
| 1:17.8 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas and this week on the sats. We're doing something a little different in light of the recent wave of bookbannings all across America |
| 1:25.1 | I felt it was really important to spotlight what's going on |
| 1:28.4 | I have been really upset over everything I'm reading and hearing about and so I wanted to take the time to address it on the |
| 1:34.7 | Podcasts every single day this week Monday through Friday |
| 1:38.0 | I'm talking to different people impacted by bookbannings my guests will range from educators and students to booksellers |
| 1:44.7 | politicians and authors things have been moving really quickly in the book banning arena and in an effort to be timely with our coverage of bookbannings |
| 1:52.9 | We put together this whole mini series in about a week these five days of coverage is not comprehensive |
| 1:59.9 | But instead a way to highlight more voices and to remind us all what is at stake throughout the week |
| 2:05.1 | You'll also hear from some of my favorite authors and thinkers about their favorite band books |
| 2:09.7 | Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found in the link in the show notes |
| 2:13.9 | I also want to say if you like what you hear if you appreciate the work that I'm doing to create the stacks every single week |
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