Big Bad Books
Banned Books Week: Let\u2019s celebrate and safeguard, come hell or highwater, our freedom to read! Bestselling novelist Colm T\xf3ib\xedn on Salman Rushdie\u2019s work and activism, the history of censorship in Ireland, and the slippery slope that is book banning. PLUS: Ariel Schrag, whose YA anthology Stuck in the Middle made the list of \u201cTop 100 Most Banned Books of the Decade.\u201d Contributing artists: Amitava Kumar, Joseph Keckler; Billy Bragg & Wilco; Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.