From the Founder: Prison Reading
So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…
Dramatic image of Library gallery

From the Founder: Banned Books, Again
Planet Word is located in the DMV — that’s the junction of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia — so we need to track what’s happening around us in…
A bookshelf in the Library at Planet Word with a selection of books, some of which have been challenged or banned across the country.

From the Founder: Banned Books
If you’ve been following the “word news” lately, you’ll know that the big issue of the last few weeks has been book banning. Wait a minute, you might be excused…