Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The event was hosted by the Heterodox Academy Campus Community at SIU Carbondale.
Author Adam Szetela discusses how efforts to diversify children’s and young adults’ literature, while well-intentioned, have also created unexpected challenges for literary freedom.
Szetela is the author of “That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing,” published in August 2025 by MIT Press and distributed by Penguin Random House.
The event was hosted by the Heterodox Academy Campus Community at SIU Carbondale.
Author Adam Szetela discusses how efforts to diversify children’s and young adults’ literature, while well-intentioned, have also created unexpected challenges for literary freedom.
Szetela is the author of “That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing,” published in August 2025 by MIT Press and distributed by Penguin Random House.
