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Banned Books Week, Hasan Minhaj, "stolen valor" and, finally, Edmund Spenser

Hello friends. I realized I’d been remiss in not celebrating the biggest holiday of the year for a queer YA writer—Banned Books Week. This is the week where we speak out against book bannings and whatnots. I’ve always been a bit of a book banning skeptic. The numbers of books banned seemed quite low, when distributed across hundreds of thousands of scho…