freedom – Banned Books Awareness

Banned Books Awareness: How will you celebrate your literary freedom?

September 15, 2012 R. Wolf Baldassarro 2

A little over one week from now will be the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week, the bibliophile’s annual celebration of the freedom to read, which this year takes place from September 30-October 6, 2012. Sometimes we forget in our daily struggles just how important our intellectual freedom really is. […]

Banned Books Awareness: The Political Agenda of the Morality Police

July 22, 2012 R. Wolf Baldassarro 0

Did anyone hear on any of the many news stations, programs, or newspapers about an American man who was imprisoned for translating a banned book? No? Me, neither. Nonetheless, Joe Gordon, sentenced to two and a half years in a Thai prison for translating a banned biography about Thailand’s king […]