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Nazis Burned My Book! – Banned Books Week 2015 | Episode 012
Special guest Matt Bird (armed with a Master of Library Science and ALA membership card) joins Infinite Gestation for an episode celebrating Banned Book Week with a discussion concerning commonly challenged subject matter, notable examples of banned books and the tendency of small communities to challenge perceived threats against common "values." Also, Sam accidentally attends a book burning cleverly disguised as a barbecue and Matt recalls the opening of the local Hot Topic (in the late 1990's) complete with an angry mob.
For a good time call 823.912. Tell 'em Banned Books Week sent you!
Follow @Infin8Gestation on Twitter • Visit InfiniteGestation.com for complete Show Notes & Links
Matt Bird curated an exhibit in the fall of 2011 at IU-Bloomington’s Lilly Library titled “The Character of Ernest Hemingway.” The exhibit utilized Hemingway’s letters, photographs, typed manuscripts with edits, and artifacts of the Army’s investigation into EH’s activities during World War II to foster a discussion of Hemingway’s personal curation and control of his image. Matt holds an MLS, specializing in Rare Books and Manuscripts, from IU-Bloomington and is currently finishing an MA in Literature at Indiana State University.
His reading interests, at the moment (fiction, non-fiction, etc), touch on graphic novels as literature (Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Brian K. Vaughan), book culture and printing/book-selling history (Umberto Eco, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Nicholas Basbanes), the Lost Generation and the fiction produced by them (Hemingway, Fitzgerald) and catching up on the O. Henry Prize Stories.
Matt taught courses over the last two years at Indiana State University on the subjects of classical mythology, the history of the physical book and its use in fiction, and the history/evolution of libraries.
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Special guest Matt Bird (armed with a Master of Library Science and ALA membership card) joins Infinite Gestation for an episode celebrating Banned Book Week with a discussion concerning commonly challenged subject matter, notable examples of banned books and the tendency of small communities to challenge perceived threats against common "values." Also, Sam accidentally attends a book burning cleverly disguised as a barbecue and Matt recalls the opening of the local Hot Topic (in the late 1990's) complete with an angry mob.
For a good time call 823.912. Tell 'em Banned Books Week sent you!
Follow @Infin8Gestation on Twitter • Visit InfiniteGestation.com for complete Show Notes & Links
Matt Bird curated an exhibit in the fall of 2011 at IU-Bloomington’s Lilly Library titled “The Character of Ernest Hemingway.” The exhibit utilized Hemingway’s letters, photographs, typed manuscripts with edits, and artifacts of the Army’s investigation into EH’s activities during World War II to foster a discussion of Hemingway’s personal curation and control of his image. Matt holds an MLS, specializing in Rare Books and Manuscripts, from IU-Bloomington and is currently finishing an MA in Literature at Indiana State University.
His reading interests, at the moment (fiction, non-fiction, etc), touch on graphic novels as literature (Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Brian K. Vaughan), book culture and printing/book-selling history (Umberto Eco, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Nicholas Basbanes), the Lost Generation and the fiction produced by them (Hemingway, Fitzgerald) and catching up on the O. Henry Prize Stories.
Matt taught courses over the last two years at Indiana State University on the subjects of classical mythology, the history of the physical book and its use in fiction, and the history/evolution of libraries.