As I continue to celebrate Banned Books Week 2024, I feel I need to follow up yesterday’s post about Kurt Vonnegut’s “dignified fury” with mockery… and when they’re cooking with gas, few folks mock as well as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
Shanna Walsh, who as a former middle school teacher knows a thing or two about the dangers facing kids, gives us a list of children’s books that will make their brains rot… or possibly their heads explode like in the film Scanners.
And if dangerous books and not-safe-for-work film clips of exploding heads are your thing, let me continue the NSFW and McSweeney’s train by reminding you it’s Decorative Gourd Season.
Happy Wednesday.