In episode 23 of the “How I Library” podcast, host Phil Morehart from the American Library Association speaks with actor and modern-day icon—and honorary chair of Banned Books Week 2025—George Takei.

Takei is the author of the new graphic novel, “It Rhymes with Takei,” the follow-up to his 2019 graphic novel, “They Called Us Enemy,” which details his childhood spent in a Japanese-American internment camp during WWII. “It Rhymes with Takei” charts Takei’s adult life as a fierce social activist, a closeted gay man working in an entertainment industry that struggled to accept him, and as someone who found love as he struggled to eventually accept himself.

Takei joins the show to discuss the book, his life and career, and, of course, how he libraries.