It has become increasingly evident that the Banned Books Awareness column must rise and once again light the darkness of censorship.As most readers are aware by now, the award-winning graphic novel, Maus, has been at the center of a massive censorship effort in McMinn County, Tennessee.I was contacted today by […]
Today is the start of #NationalStorytellingWeek. What will you be sharing? I will start with the short I did for the charity anthology, “Mythic Indy”. bit.ly/3iZ26OV
https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/01/02/homer-odyssey-classic-not-something-ban-exclude/4092695001/
A wonderful quote by the author of the oft-challenged and banned book, “A Wrinkle in Time”. We do not lose that which we were. It is always a part of us- a part of the complex individual and a reminder of the milestones attained along life’s journey.
Librarian Takes Center Stage Play about race and a banned children’s book wp.me/p6YsyC-1RP #AlabamaStory
Hardly any work of imaginative storytelling has stood as more enduring and full-bodied a testament to this ideal than Ray Bradbury’s 1953 masterwork Fahrenheit 451 — a love letter to books and to the people who care about them and, perhaps above all, to the very capacity for caring. This […]
Inspired by the success of Pokémon Go, a Belgian primary school headmaster has developed an online game for people to search for books instead of cartoon monsters, attracting tens of thousands of players in weeks. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/belgians-are-hunting-books-instead-of-pokemon/ar-BBw6N9W?ocid=st The perfect, and logical, progression of Little Free Libraries on a larger scale. This […]
The lines in the sand continue to form at colleges across the country. While many colleges are instituting “safe spaces” and banning “trigger words”, some are not coddling their student body. The University of Chicago recently made it clear to its crop of incoming students that academic freedom and inquiry […]
A 2012 study showed that more than half of young adult books are actually being purchased and read by adults. So who are they really for? http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/08/25/books-young-adult-novels-for-grownups
With support from the American Library Association (ALA), U.K. organizations have united to host Banned Books Week programs throughout London, demonstrating that censorship is not confined to the United States. http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/banned-books-week-makes-international-splash-across-pond
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