So we've got an urgent off Wednesday episode today, Jen.

Yeah, we've been working on this one for a while, everybody.

You've heard us talking about this

way of book banning that has been happening all over the country.

We are concerned about this at many levels as readers

primarily, right, as parents, as a teacher, but also as romance readers.

Anyone coming for sexual content writ large

as all bad, it's eventually coming for romance and we are foolish if we think that

that it won't but also even if it's not sort of I don't want it to sound like it's just like self-motivated.

I think it is deeply worrying as a reader to live in a country where book banning is so widespread.

Yeah.

And in a way that isn't just like people saying,

I don't want this book in the library,

but that is in law, being written into laws in ways that make it impossible for

librarians and teachers to even talk about the presence of these books that it's

it's so, I like almost like lack the words for it because it's so evil to me. Like that's really the only word I have for it.

And antithetical to what we like to call the fabric of you know a nation when we talk to people who you know

constitutional purists like book banning. Yeah feels like it's a hard limit for or should be a hard limit in America.

It's funny because I just recently did an event with Hillary Hallit who is a professor at Columbia of women's history and

during our conversation it came up that in the United States you can't ban a book before it's written right it has to be written in order to ban it and

and that felt for a long time like it was the safety net, like you, yeah, if you can't ban a thought, but now here we are and we are in a place where important texts are being written,

texts that are about identity and about culture and about hope and that give students and other people, people all

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