Month: March 2014

Banned Books Awareness: “Bare-Faced Messiah”

March 30, 2014 R. Wolf Baldassarro 3

Scientologists have kept a book out of American stores for 27-years because it alleges that L. Ron Hubbard was a racist and a fantasist with a penchant for bizarre sexual rituals; but it is finally getting published. Written by British journalist Russell Miller, it was finished the year after Hubbard’s […]

Censorship and Rape in the American Heartland

March 23, 2014 R. Wolf Baldassarro 2

The residents of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are no strangers to the practice of censorship. In 2006 they witnessed attempts to ban such works as Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Sonya Sones’ One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. Now the English faculty […]