The TradeWaiters 117: “Banned Book Club” by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, & Ryan Estrada

For this episode our panel read Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada. This book follows Hyun Sook’s adventures as a young revolutionary during South Korea’s Fifth Republic dictatorship. Because irony is dead, this book has in turn faced book bans of its own. Join us as we talk about the freedom to read, the importance of being able to imagine a different world, that a police state will inevitably do police state things, and how much we love the bus.

Also mentioned in this episode:
No Rules Tonight also by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada
Occulted by Amy Rose, Ryan Estrada, and Jeongmin Lee
Student Ambassador, Aki Alliance, Broken Telephone, The Kind, and Big Data, also by Ryan Estrada in various capacities
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
24 created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino
Providence and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Precious Metal and Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram
Authors Against Banned Books
and The American Library Association