September 29, 2018

This week: it’s Banned Books Week and the Guardian takes notice, Penguin Random House is notingb the week in partnershing with We Need Diverse Books, the reasons comics get banned, the Kirkus Prize nominees are announced, the judge’s copy of a banned book is going on the auction block, the Nobel Prize for Literature might not return next year, and the founder of the World Wide Web has charted a new path forward. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week. aois21 audio would like your help! We are currently conducting surveys of listeners to several of our podcast series. Visit www.surveys.aois21.com or the homepage of each podcast to find the link. It will only take a couple minutes of your time and we will thank you with 21% off any purchase from the aois21 market and enter you for a chance to win a $25 Visa gift card. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Get access to over 180,000 audiobooks with your first month free. Visit www.audibletrial.com/aois21 and your first book is on us! This podcast is also brought to you by the 12th Annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, October 5th-6th in Frostburg, Md. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu/cla/indie-lit-festival. It is also sponsored by the Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s premiere book event. Held at George Mason University and the surrounding area from October 10th-13th, it will feature panel discussions, live readings and a book fair. Visit www.fallforthebook.org for more information. Literally This Week is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, Podomatic, and www.audio.aois21.com. You can support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon. For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter. If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.