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361: The Murky Passions

Dear Hank & John

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Is This a Problem With My Brain?

Hank Williams' first novel, Looking for Alaska, came out almost 20 years ago. It's recently been targeted for removal from a lot of high school English curricula and also from school libraries. A parent filed a police report saying that a teacher who'd made this book available had committed a crime by distributing obscene material to children. And so if this is happening in your community and there are ways that you can support those teachers and librarians, that would be the kindest thing that you could do for me.

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