Special Preview: “Velshi Banned Book Club”

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

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Ali Velshi gives a special preview of his new podcast, “Velshi Banned Book Club,” an act of resistance against the epidemic of book banning. In each episode, a different author of a banned book joins Ali—including Margaret Atwood, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Laurie Halse Anderson and more—to talk about why their work is being targeted and about the literature itself. “Velshi Banned Book Club” is a series rooted in literary and cultural analysis and in the notion of reading as resistance. Listen to the first two episodes now and follow the series: https://link.chtbl.com/vbbc_fdlw

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, MSNBC's Ali Velshi here. I'm excited to tell you about a new podcast I'm hosting
0:06.0	called Velshi Band Book Club. By now I'm sure you've heard all about the book banning
0:10.8	epidemics weeping the nation with some 1500 titles banned last year alone. But do you
0:17.2	know the specific stories that have been banned? The Velshi Band Book Club transcends news
0:22.4	coverage of the bands themselves to focus on the literature and the authors who've been
0:27.5	targeted. Stay right here to listen to a preview of my conversation with author David Levithan
0:32.4	on his award-winning bestseller, Two Boys Kissing. Levithan and I discuss why his book,
0:38.2	a hopeful novel that grapples with identity, community, and belonging has faced such vitriol.
0:44.7	To hear the first two episodes and get the entire series, search for Velshi Band Book Club wherever
0:50.5	you're listening now and follow.
0:58.0	I think my book hits the list because it's called Two Boys Kissing. It shows Two Boys Kissing on
1:04.1	the cover. It contains more than Two Boys Kissing inside. And so the historical record, the fact
1:10.8	that it is based on intergenerational and a generation of men who died from AIDS looking down
1:16.9	at the current generation. None of those subtleties matter. They just object to Two Boys Kissing.
1:21.8	If you were writing the book today, would you be as optimistic in the way it was written?
1:26.7	I think I'd even be more optimistic because I think one of the things the older generation in
1:30.8	the book realizes is that the younger generation has their act together more and is going to experience
1:37.4	more freedoms than they ever imagined. And even though adults are trying to get in the way of what
1:41.8	they do and what they read and who they kiss, that they will still try out. And I believe that
1:46.2	with every answer my heart. Thanks for listening to the special preview, search for Velshi Band Book Club
1:52.5	wherever you're listening now and follow.

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