Given the recent, increased propensity of book banning by fragile, foolish parents and stupid, opportunist politicians, the Brooklyn Public Library is offering a free library card to anyone in the United States ages 13 to 21 who wants to check out books digitally.
The program is called Books UnBanned.
Librarians are the best.
Barnes & Noble is also pushing back on this wave of book banning, featuring a table of recently banned books in their stores.
Booksellers are the best, too.
I suddenly find myself hoping that maybe, someday, one of my novels might get banned by cowering parents or pandering politicians who are afraid that my stories might infect the minds of small children and suddenly transform them into something unspeakably tolerant and disturbingly progressive.
I’d imagine that the inclusion of a same-sex kissing scene, a functioning Ouija board, a transgender teenager, a gender-neutral restroom, or the assertion that Confederate generals were traitorous scumbags might be more than enough to get a book banned these days.
I’ll see what I can do.
