(WIB) – Percival Everett, the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, believes that book bans and censorship are telltale signs that fascism is on the rise in Donald Trump’s America. To save democracy, he says, ordinary, everyday citizens must stand and fight back.

Everett’s recommended acts of resistance? Getting a library card or joining a book club.

“Libraries are the seat of subversion,” Everett said in an interview with Augustin Trapenard, host of the French TV program La Grande Librairie. “Reading is the most subversive thing we can do in any culture.”

Reading with others, he said, is even better: “The second most subversive thing is being a part of a book club.”

Trapenard laughed a bit. Everett didn’t crack a smile.

The latest report from PEN America gives us an idea why Everett was d

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