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KGB Non-fiction Night Welcomes Mike Edison’s Banned Book Party with Alan Black, David Hadju and Richard Nash. Tuesday, September 30th, 7PM, FREE!

To celebrate the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week, Mike Edison will perform “Pornography, Part I” from his book I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World.

He’ll also be discussing freedom of speech and banned and challenged books with his guests David Hajdu, author of the The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, and Richard Nash, editorial director of Soft Skull Press, who will also be reading from Arming America, a book which spent four years in the American Library Association’s list of the top five most challenged books. 

Expect “professional beatniks” and “state-sponsored fear,” as well as a “Name That Banned Book Contest” — winners to receive “appropriately chosen prizes.”

Also reading is Alan Black, author of Kick the Balls: An Offensive Suburban Odyssey (Fever Pitch meets Trainspotting), a laugh-out-loud, caustic account of one man’s attempt to coach a peewee soccer team in California. For a start, his team the Tigers, lack one major skill – the ability to play soccer.

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