J.K. Rowling, her books have quite literally been burned.

There's a new job in the publishing business.

It's known as a sensitivity reader.

Who scan texts before publication on the lookout for any missteps.

The censors are kind of insatiable, and they'll always find something new to go after.

And presumably there's an incentive to censor.

They're the ones who are constantly saying literature is racist, literature is sexist.

They are arsonists who sell fire insurance.

Hello, I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spikes.

I'm absolutely thrilled to be joined by Adam's teller, the author of

This Book is Dangerous. Welcome, Adam. Hey, Frasier. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

So, Adam, your book is about the kind of hidden censorship that's going on all the time in the

publishing industry. I wondered if you could tell us a little bit about maybe some of the more

public scandals first

that have broken forth.

It seems to concern a lot of young adult fiction where rouse have led to some quite

serious cases of censorship.

Could you talk a bit about that at first?

One of the things that my book looks at is how a moral panic that really started over

children's literature and what's called

young adult literature. So this would be like preteen, teen sort of coming of age literature.

And it looks at how these controversies that began there and began under the sort of

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