As I Lay Dying, by American author William Faulkner, was published in 1930. The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey, when Agamemnon says to Odysseus: “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.” As I […]
Since 1990 there have been more than 50,000 incidents in which a book’s right to an existence has been called into question. Why? For nothing more than the simple fact that they expressed ideas that made someone, somewhere, feel uncomfortable; and that discomfort was taken as a personal offense. There […]
And Tango Makes Three is a children’s book (ages 4-8) written in 2005 by Justin Richardson, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in New York, and Peter Parnell, a playwright (The Cider House Rules). The story is based on true events about a couple of chinstrap penguins living in New […]
According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 46 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts. Over the past decade, American libraries were faced with 4400 challenges. 1,413 challenges due to “sexually explicit” material; 1,125 challenges due […]
My friend over at the Graubner library in Romeo, Michigan just emailed me a copy of the American Library Association’s “Library Bill of Rights”. I had emailed him about the Banned Books Awareness and Reading for Knowledge project and here is part of what he said to me: “In regards […]
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