Author Damon Young On Banned Books And ‘Feckless Jagoffs’
When Pittsburgh Author Damon Young released his memoir, “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,” it earned him international praise, a spot on NPR’s “Best Book of the Year” list, and took the VerySmartBros founder and former Wilkinsburg high school teacher from Pittsburgh to the world. Tomorrow, his new podcast, "Stuck with Damon Young,” drops, in partnership with Crooked Media and Spotify. Today, he talks with City Cast Pittsburgh Host Morgan Moody about banned books, the plight of middle school teachers, and the literature even he won’t let his kids read.
Read Young’s writing for the Washington Post (where he recently snuck the word ‘jagoff’ into a column): https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/damon-young/
Devour his book, “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker”: https://www.damonjyoung.com/book
And listen to “Stuck With Damon Young”: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/stuck-with-damon-young/
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