Introducing: Velshi Banned Book Club

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi brings you the “Velshi Banned Book Club,” an act of resistance against the epidemic of book banning. In each episode, a different author of a banned book joins Ali—including Margaret Atwood, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Laurie Halse Anderson, George M. Johnson and more—to talk about why their work is being targeted and about the literature itself. “Velshi Banned Book Club” is a series rooted in literary and cultural analysis and in the notion of reading as resistance. Read along with Ali and follow now to listen to the first two episodes on August 24th. https://link.chtbl.com/vbbc_trms

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm MSNBC's Ali Velshi.
0:03.2	You already know about the book banning epidemic infiltrating our classrooms, affecting
0:07.8	our children, and playing a major role in our upcoming election.
0:11.8	And I'm sure you know the numbers, 1500 titles banned last year alone.
0:17.4	But do you know the stories?
0:19.1	Each week on my podcast, Velshi Band Book Club, a different author joins me to open their
0:24.1	band book and carefully examine their writing, like Margaret Atwood.
0:29.8	Why the Hanman's Tale?
0:31.2	It's the sex, violence, and also the fact that this totalitarian regime is a theocracy,
0:39.8	which purports to be Christian.
0:42.2	So they have, of course, distorted everything.
0:44.9	Lori Hals Anderson, author of Speak.
0:47.7	Using stories, using books.
0:51.0	That is the age old way that we get better at things.
0:54.4	That's how we share our wisdom, how we share our values, our ethics, information, by creating
1:00.6	literate citizens.
1:02.2	That's how we take our country to the place it should be in.
1:06.6	And many more.
1:07.6	The Velshi Band Book Club podcast transcends news coverage of the book bans to focus on
1:12.8	the titles themselves.
1:14.9	Through these conversations, we discover what's behind each author's work.
1:19.3	And why that loud voice at a school board meeting is so scared of it.
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