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Be a Cactus Podcast — 73 episodes
The Fiction of Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel Kraus.
Books! Magdalene Laundries, A World Appears by Michael Pollan, Here’s to you Jesusa! …
Iran and Exit Prohibited; AI-Generated Writing; Cesar Chavez Fallout
Enshittification Part 2, Plus 2 Good Novels
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Book Giveaway and Gratitude
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls
Making Meaning with Your Story; Some Good Books
Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse
Who are We, Anyway? What are We Reading?
Gift Ideas for Book Lovers And Do-Gooders!
Personal Curriculums, Farmworkers, and “Sacrament”
Why Fascists Fear Teachers by Randi Weingarten
Sirens’ Call: Assessing the Damage of Social Media
Good Books, Good Trouble
Sexism and Sensibility, Trump Nightmares, Banned Books Week
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Stress and Assassination
Book Discussion: Flashlight by Susan Choi; The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
Uncultured: A Memoir of the ‘Children of God’ Cult
The End of the Book Review. Lit Mag Submissions. Dead Sea Scrolls.
Turtles All the Way Down: Persist in Creativity
Fifty Years of Banning: Forever by Judy Blume
Miracles and Wonder and Open Minds
Book Recommendations and the State of Things
Art and some book recommendations
Microfiction, Monster Hunters, and Old Girls
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Book Review: “Cowboy Apocalypse” and Lemon Recipes
Summer Reading Recommendations
“Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America” by Bridget Read
My Book Launch on the Day of My Mother's Funeral
Book Review: Cults Like Us
John Green’s “Everything is Tuberculosis”
Capricious Pulitzers, Swamplandia!, and Orchids
Review of “Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking over America”
Unheard Witness: Domestic Abuse and Mass Murder
Crank by Ellen Hopkins, AI Sums Up Hitler
I Wrote a Book! Here’s a Cake! 🍾
Thirteen Reasons Why We Practice Empathy
Courage and Cowards and Books, Oh My!
#4 in Top Banned Books: Sold
Banned Books: Perks of Being a Wallflower
Using Our Words, Reading, Playing Games
Fresh Hell, Fresh Hope
Let’s Thank Bishop Budde and All Helpers
LA Fires; That Librarian by Amanda Jones
New Year Truths: I Hate Romantasy!
Undivided, Cherished Belonging
Stephen King is Not Coming to Save Us
Grief in Drabbles (and a Poem)
Gratitude and Other People’s Money
Living Dead Girl: On My Book Talk List
Publishing with She Writes Press
Being a Person: Sorrow & Santa Ana Winds
Weary of This Escape Room
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
Spiritual Abuse: The Stay-at-Home Daughter Movement
Ta-Nehisi Coates: New Book, Banned Book
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns
Banned Books Week: Akwaeke Emezi
A Monster of a Novel: Walter Dean Myers
Speak and Shout: Why Librarians Fight for Banned Books
Looking for Alaska, Finding Hope in an Imperfect World
Killing Mr. Griffin, Birthing Readers
Why is This Book Banned? Plus: Read Local
My Dreams Live in a Difficult Reality
The Poet X, Teen Voices, and Censorship
Summertime: The Living is Easy—and Not
Pity the Educator Who Must Teach the Bible and the 10 Commandments
Sex, Lies, and Birth Control
Who are the Helpers, Anyway?