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Author: Wake Now in the Fire, Mr. Watson’s Chickens (NPR Best of ‘21), others. Librarian. Drummer @fascinator_band. Podcast: I'm With the Banned.
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🐓Wake Now in the Fire
🗣️ Perfect of you are on the Mood for :
✊ student activism & collective resistance
🎒 high school stories with real-world stakes
🖤 graphic novels rooted in true events
💕Thank you for sending me a gifted copy @tenspeedgraphic @tenspeedpress @jarrettdapier !
📔Wake Now in the Fire
Jarrett Dapier
A.J. Dungo
Ten Speed Graphic
Publication date : February 3, 2026
464 pages, Hardcover
One day, students in a Chicago high school learn that Persepolis has been removed from their classrooms and library. Then they discover it’s not just their school, it is every Chicago public school. No explanation. No discussion. Just a ban. And some students refuse to accept that.
Based on real events, Wake Now in the Fire follows a group of high schoolers as they organize walkouts, library sit-ins, media campaigns and peer-to-peer reading to push back against a system-wide act of censorship. Told from multiple perspectives and grounded in interviews with the real students and teachers involved, this powerful graphic novel shows how collective action can grow from confusion into resistance.
This story captures the everyday reality of high school alongside the courage it takes to speak up, especially when adults in power stay silent. It is a love letter to libraries, to banned books and to the belief that stories matter precisely because they challenge us.
#GraphicNovel #YAReads #YABooks #Bookstagram #BookBans
06 Feb 2026
Announcing I'm with the Banned, a new podcast hosted by me and dedicated to examining censorship in American culture through storytelling and conversations with writers, librarians, teachers, and readers. The first episode will be available to stream/download via Apple Podcasts and Spotify on Tuesday, June 24. Check back here for information next week on my first guest and how you can become a founding member of the show. Been pulling this thing together for a year and can't wait. What's that? You're wondering who designed our damn fine censored-books patchwork logo and type? That would be @tqvinn, graphic designer and creative director extraordinaire (and excellent musician) whose work you should definitely check out. Thank you, Mr. Quinn. "The function of freedom is to free another." -Toni Morrison. FREE PEOPLE READ FREELY. #podcaster #podcast #podcastshow #censorship #censorshipisreal #censorshipisunamerican #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #wakenowinthefire #libraries #library #librarylife #librarybooks #librarian #librarianlife #librariansofinstagram #librarylove
12 Jun 2025
Episode 4 is here! In this episode, I talk with author Nicole Kronzer, whose sweet and serious 2020 YA novel, Unscripted, is a must-read for anyone concerned, appalled, and furious about the patriarchal abuses of women and girls, especially in the performing arts. It's a realistic novel with real heart that rips the lid off how misogyny can operate in the improv comedy world (which could just as easily be the art, dance, writing, scientific, etc. worlds) to keep women and girls out - and cause real damage along the way. It does all that and manages to also be funny.
Unscripted is the story of Zelda Bailey-Cho, the only girl on the varsity team at a prestigious improv comedy camp, whose dreams of making it as a performer and eventually personal safety are threatened by the insidious and overt misogyny directed at her by her male teammates, her predatory coach, and apathetic camp directors. Zelda wants to fight back, but is sacrificing her best shot at her dream of making Saturday Night Live's cast too heavy a price to pay?
Hear Nicole talk about how self-censorship is a tool of misogyny, what she's learned from the many teens she's taught in the classroom, her experiences as a professional actor turned writer, and more.
I'm so glad this book exists and that @nicolekronzer took the time to sit down with me to discuss it.
Link to the episode in bio. Special thanks to @francesdapier for her work on this episode.
Credits:
Host: Jarrett Dapier
Music Break and Coda: "I Don't Want To Make It Hurt" by Better Love off their album, I Don't Want To Make It Hurt. Follow them on Instagram @betterloveus
Instagram support and research by Frances Dapier
I'm With the Banned Logo by Thomas J. Quinn @tqvinn
I'm With the Banned theme song, "The Reckoning," written and performed by Joe Dapier
26 Oct 2026
Thanks to the @bkbookfest for the panel “250 Years of American Activism” with graphic novelists @jarrettdapier (“Wake Now in the Fire”) @angeliquerocheofficial (“First Freedom”) and me. Moderated by Colin Starger, professor of constitutional law at @ubaltmain
Photo by James Hyde.
#bkbf2026
13 Oct 2026
In honor of #BannedBooksWeek2026, head down to the library and join the #WIBookFest and Beyond the Page (@humanities_in_libraries ) as we host Jarrett Dapier (@jarrettdapier) for his graphic novel, WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE, about Chicago Public School students who stood up against a book ban.
You can check out an NPR Book Review of Dapier’s book ahead of tomorrow’s event at the link in our bio.
See you tomorrow (10/7) at 7 p.m. at Central Library!
06 Oct 2026
Sunday 9/27 at 2 pm at @bkbookfest: discussing “250 years of American Activism” with graphic novelists @jarrettdapier (“Wake Now in the Fire”) @angeliquerocheofficial (“First Freedom”) and me (“Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated).
Moderated by Colin Starger, professor of constitutional law at @ubaltmain
Link in bio #bkbf2026
24 Sep 2026
New York friends and readers! I will be speaking @bkbookfest with @rsikoryak and @angeliquerocheofficial on Sunday, September 27 at 2p @brooklynhistory. We will be speaking about “250 Years of American Activism” as represented in our comics and graphic novels. Can’t wait! #censorship #graphicnovel #brooklynbookfestival
22 Sep 2026
WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE Fall Book Tour ‘26!! I hope to see your sweet faces sometime soon.
Update 9/14/226: one correction and one addition! 1. The @nypl intellectual freedom breakfast talk I’m giving on 11/7 starts at 8am, not 8:30am. 2. On Friday, October 23 at 7pm, I will be speaking on “Books, Censorship, and the Right to Read” @librarylagrange. Will update the flyer sometime maybe.
@ahml @wibookfest @printersrowfest @bkbookfest @bucknellu @nyla_1890 @freedom_to_read_foundation #censorship #graphicnovels #freespeech
13 Sep 2026
I'm excited to share that I'll be on a panel at @printersrowfest on Sunday, September 13th!
The Fight Against Banning Books
11 AM on the North Stage
S. Dearborn & Ida B Wells Dr
I'll be with @veronicaeye (J is for Justice) in conversation with @lyongabrielle1.
Grab some coffee & join us as we talk and rage about the rise in book bans across America.
#bannedbooks
#chicagobookstagram
#chicagoauthor
#chicagobooks
01 Sep 2026
What’s on the menu for lunch today? Did somebody say JAZZ?? Well we’ve got the perfect book. Come along as we read “Jazz for Lunch” by Jarrett Dapier and Eugenia Mello and create a dish inspired by jazz great Sonny Rollins. Trust us, It tastes just as good as it sounds 🎷🍽️🎶 #joy #joyheartkc #storytime #family #fun
19 Aug 2026
It’s here! Episode 3 of I’m With the Banned features author Rex Ogle, aka Rey Terciero, author of over 100 books for kids and teens, including his latest graphic novel, “Fruitcake.” Rex’s popular graphic novel adaptation of “Little Women,” titled “Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy,” has been repeatedly challenged and banned in school districts across the country since 2020 for its LGBTQ+ representation. Hear Rex talk about the importance of vulnerability in writing and in life, his love of graphic novels, and why writing intensely personal stories for young people is a personal calling towards service for others. If you haven’t read Rex before, I highly recommend the following titles: Free Lunch, Punching Bag, and Road Home (memoir trilogy); Northranger and Dan In Green Gables (written as Rey Terciero); Four Eyes and Pizza Face; and Abuela, Don’t Forget Me. Musical break/coda: “Superconductive,” a new song by Dovetail Joint. Now get listening!
Available on all streaming platforms, link in bio. #censorship #bannedbooks #bannedauthor #libraries
07 Aug 2026
“You bury the history, you bury the heroes with it.”
-Randi Pink
Episode 2 of I’m With the Banned is here and I can’t wait for you to hear it. On this episode, I’m joined by Randi Pink, author of 5 YA books, including Angel of Greenwood, a beautiful historical fiction novel suffused with warmth, elegance, and fire about two Black teenagers falling in love in the days that lead up to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Angel of Greenwood was banned from the 9th grade English curriculum by the school board of Pine Richland High School outside Pittsburgh, PA in January 2025, despite ongoing protests from many students, parents, and educators at the school who embraced the book. In so doing, the Pine Richland board keeps alive a part of the spirit of the white supremacists who sought to obliterate the people of Greenwood from the Earth through their mass violence on the night of May 31-June, 1, 1921. Randi discusses her own high school experiences, the “brilliant” teens she met when she visited Pine Richland after the ban came down, and how writing keeps her from “breaking her good dishes.” The episode’s music break is by Chicago’s own @raingardenn who you should listen to. Tune in!
Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Find the links in my bio.
Works discussed:
Pink, Randi. Angel of Greenwood.
Pink, Randi. Girls Like Us.
Music break:
“Elated” by @raingardenn off their self-titled album. Hear more and purchase their music at www.raingarden.bandcamp.com
Support future episodes of I’m With the Banned at:
www.patreon.com/withthebann3d
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at [email protected]
Credits：
Logo and Art: @tqvinn
Theme music: “The Reckoning” written and performed by Joe
Dapier
With thanks to librarians and booksellers everywhere. #podcastsofinstagram #library #librarylife #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram yaauthor yabookstagram bannedbooks
07 Aug 2026
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