I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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Hey everyone. In this week before Labor Day we are revisiting some of our favorite conversations

from the past year or so. Today I'm going to share an episode we aired back in December.

It was all about book banning. I'd wondered what happens when it's your book that's being banned

and that's how I ended up talking with young adult author Ashley Hope Perez.

Alright, here's the show.

Head's up everyone. We're going to be talking about banned books in this episode.

And the reasons those books got banned in the first place a lot of times that includes some frank talk about sex.

So you've been warned.

When I was in high school there was that one English teacher, everyone adored.

The one who sponsored the literary magazine. The one who encouraged students to keep journals and read poetry out loud.

I thought of that teacher when I got Ashley Perez on the line.

She used to teach English down in Texas.

I taught on the southeast side of Houston at Chavez. Since I've each of his high school back in the early 2000s.

That meant assigning the so-called classics.

Well, I was teaching back in the days of tequila marking bird of my son men.

Always some shakes here. So I taught Julia Caesar Macbeth.

Yeah, was there ever a book you wouldn't teach?

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