I started out today’s podcast with breaking news: I broke my foot! I’m in a cast. I’m hosting not a Pity Party but a fulltime “Pity Rager” — I welcome visits, presents, tips on recovery, and distraction in spades. It’s my 2nd metatarsal, if you’re counting. I went to see a man about a horse, and . . .
It brought back great memories to hear this interview again. It’s interesting to note that a few years later I became director of that little library in Cook. The woman who was the director who asked to be first to get Madonna just recently passed away at age 88. She was an amazing person who brought a lot of innovation to that library, including the first computer in any library in the region! We also had a moose mounted on the wall, something I’ve not seen in any other public library - it is truly a northern exposure kind of town.
Intellectual freedom is more in the news than ever. It’s become a major point of contention in the culture wars, so you and I continue to fight many of the same battles with many of the same forces, coming at them from similar but different angles. I always appreciate having allies like you at my side as we ride into battle!
I just looked it up, and voilà, a Newbery winner! I think the book banners just look at the Newbery list each year as a guide to what they want to burn. Here’s a link, by the way: https://amzn.to/3BZWHEy
I started out today’s podcast with breaking news: I broke my foot! I’m in a cast. I’m hosting not a Pity Party but a fulltime “Pity Rager” — I welcome visits, presents, tips on recovery, and distraction in spades. It’s my 2nd metatarsal, if you’re counting. I went to see a man about a horse, and . . .
It brought back great memories to hear this interview again. It’s interesting to note that a few years later I became director of that little library in Cook. The woman who was the director who asked to be first to get Madonna just recently passed away at age 88. She was an amazing person who brought a lot of innovation to that library, including the first computer in any library in the region! We also had a moose mounted on the wall, something I’ve not seen in any other public library - it is truly a northern exposure kind of town.
Intellectual freedom is more in the news than ever. It’s become a major point of contention in the culture wars, so you and I continue to fight many of the same battles with many of the same forces, coming at them from similar but different angles. I always appreciate having allies like you at my side as we ride into battle!
I love this epilogue. She wounds so wonderful. The radical elders are the best. Ride or die!
I went to quite a few “Free Huey” rallies and antiwar events in the Sixties. Bobby Seale was always a mesmerizing speaker.
Yes, born orator and so much charisma.
The book about the dog that got bitten by a snake on its scrotum is The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (also available in Chinese)
YES! Thank you for supplying that information!
Celia! How on earth did you know that? Now I have to find it immediately.
I just looked it up, and voilà, a Newbery winner! I think the book banners just look at the Newbery list each year as a guide to what they want to burn. Here’s a link, by the way: https://amzn.to/3BZWHEy
Yes. This book was a big deal when it came out, primarily noted for the scandalous use of the word SCROTUM in a book intended for CHILDREN.