“Prompt to Page” is a cool podcast all about sharing writing prompts! Recently I had so much fun chatting with host Carrie Green, (of Jessamine County Public Library here in Kentucky.)
Check it out! 🙂
I’ve been asked a lot about book bans recently, so let’s round up all the questions, and my best attempts at answers, in a post for the bookban-curious.
That’s a tricky question. First, a “banned book” refers to books withdrawn from the library, or prohibited from use in a school (PEN America.) A book might not technically be banned, but still affected by censorship. For example, decades ago when I was a kiddo, upset grown ups painted underwear over Mickey’s weenie in Maurice Sendak’s In The Night Kitchen (example image from ScopeNotes.)
Second, authors don’t always know if their book is banned or censored or defaced-by-the-weenie-phobic. When folks succeed at censoring a book they don’t say “welp we’d better email the author and tell them the news.” That said—
Rachel Elliott 