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The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 1-2: Welcome to Gilead, It’s Worse Than You Think | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 1
Margaret Atwood opens with a gymnasium that smells like bubblegum and decades of girls who passed through it — and within three pages, you understand…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Catcher in the Crosshairs: When a Banned Book Gets Blamed for Murder | Banned Books Podcast
🎉 Season 11 begins Tuesday, June 9th — The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Three high-profile crimes. One banned book. Mark David Chapman shot J…
4 months ago
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 26: Don’t Ever Tell Anybody Anything | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 39
🎉 Season 11 begins Tuesday, June 9th — The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
The final chapter is half a page long. It takes about two minutes to r…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 25.3: If They Fall Off, They Fall Off | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 38
🎉 Season 11 begins Tuesday, June 9th — we're reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Robot has been promoted to official composer.
Phoebe thr…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Catcher in the Rye | Ch. 25.2: She Showed Up With a Suitcase | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 37
Holden goes back to Phoebe's school and sees something on the wall that drives him crazy. Then he sees it again. And again. He visits the museum, pla…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 25.1: The Kid Who Asked a Ghost for Permission to Keep Existing | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 36
🎉 SEASON 11 ANNOUNCED: Banned Camp will be reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, starting June 9th. The scary book people have spoken.
Hold…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 24.2: Then Something Happened | Banned Books Comedy
Episode 35
Old Mr. Antolini finishes his speech about the size of your mind, makes up the couch, and calls Holden "handsome." Then something happens that reader…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Banned Camp Season 11 Book Vote: You Pick What We Read Next | Banned Books Comedy Podcast
We're handing the show over to you. The scary book people have nominated the books they want us to read for season 11, and we've narrowed it down to …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 24.1: Holden Flunks the Art of Staying on Topic | Banned Books Podcast
Episode 33
Holden shows up at Mr. Antolini's swanky apartment in the middle of the night to find his old teacher in a bathrobe with a highball, his wife heading…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 23: The Safest Place He’s Ever Been | Banned Books
Episode 32
Holden dances with Phoebe in the dark with the radio turned low — maybe the only moment in the entire book where he's truly happy. Then the parents c…
5 months ago