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Danny Caine presents his latest book, How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight Them. Inspired by his work as a bookseller, author, and anti-monopoly activist, How to Defend Books and Why is Caine's call to arms for readers everywhere, and an expertly-crafted confrontation of far-right attempts to reshape American culture through ban campaigns targeting schools, libraries, and marginalized identities-in life and in literature. Featuring stories from Canada to Texas and Brooklyn to Palestine, the book offers a wide-angle view of ever-escalating attacks on the freedom we read, as well as methods for resisting them. In this interactive presentation, Caine will outline strategies for fighting book bans, the far-reaching consequences of the book ban movement, and his process of researching and composing the book.
Danny Caine is the author most recently of How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight Them, as well as Jewish American Dream, winner of the inaugural Sarabande Chapbook Prize. He's also written four poetry collections as well as the books How to Protect Bookstores and Why and How to Resist Amazon and Why. He's a former owner of the Raven Book Store, winner of Publishers Weekly's 2022 Bookstore of the Year award. His poetry has appeared in The Slowdown, LitHub, DIAGRAM, HAD and Barrelhouse. He lives in Ohio
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