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Banning Books

March 23, 2024December 13, 2023 by Martin and Root

This month we had planned to write about several books we love that have been banned, but we realized that along with giving you a list of banned books we really wanted to write about the current tsunami of book banning in our country.

Celebrating the Square Pegs

March 8, 2021May 22, 2019 by Martin and Root

This month the two of us are actually in the same place at the same time, and we’re having a conversation about square pegs. We are all not just square pegs and round pegs. We are triangles, pentagons, hexagon, oval, rhomboids, stars. There are shapes for everyone and places, too, where each of us fits best. But we all know what being a square peg means.… more

Skinny Dip with Michael Hall

February 22, 2016February 2, 2016 by Vicki Palmquist

What is your proudest career moment? Several months before the publication of my book, Red: A Crayon’s Story, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial bemoaning the “gender industrial complex,” “cultural warriors,” and books—including mine—“that seek to engage the sympathies of young readers … and nudge the needle of culture.” I had written something good enough to provoke the wrath of the WJS editorial page.… more

Banning Books

Celebrating the Square Pegs

Skinny Dip with Michael Hall

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