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Apr.13.2012
Lauren Myracle, author of SHINE, ttfn, and many more popular YA books, talks beautifully and honestly in this article about her books being banned and challenged, the horrible criticisms she’s received, the blizzard of fan mail she gets (a hundred emails a day!!), the awful mix...
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Jan.19.2012
Is this a tempest in a teapot?
Banned: William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was banned by Arizona as part of an ousted Mexican-American ethnic studies program
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Shakespeare work axed in Arizona schools as law bans 'ethnic studies'
By NINA...
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Jan.17.2012
On Not Being Banned
To Former Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal, and the Tucson Unified School District.
I am writing to protest discriminatory actions on your part that amount to defamation of my...
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Sep.26.2011
I gotta tell ya - as God is my witness - I am becoming sore tired of petty people.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Top Ten Banned Or Challenged Books Of 2010To mark Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct 1), we've created an infographic to highlight the most banned or challenged...
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Sep.25.2011
One wonders how The Bible was ever allowed.
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Mark Twain story formally 'unbanned' in US
Eve's Diary, embargoed in 1906 over its illustrations, formally restored to library to launch Banned Books Week
by Alison Flood
Mark Twain: "The deep unconscious irony of it...
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Apr.18.2011
My life doesn’t seem very radical most days: I teach my students how to write, come home for family dinner around the table, put my daughter to bed, and then start picking up the abandoned Barbies, empty water glasses, and half-read magazines that comprise the domestic detritus of my house. But...
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Jan.07.2011
From my City Brights column of January 5, 2011.
"Nigger" appears 219 times in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. A new version of the book aims to reduce that number by 219. That's right. Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition has replaced the...
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Sep.27.2010
The morning after my father attended my high school's PTA meeting, teachers stopped me in the hall to say, "Your father is a remarkable man." By third period, I'd heard from two other teachers that my dad was cool.
I thought my father, who rarely went to PTA meetings, was an...
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Sep.27.2010
Banned Book Week 2010
Are you aware Banned Books Week started on Saturday? Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom...
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Oct.02.2009
Don't let me forget: I've got to mention that my new book is out--it's the Grateful Dead Scrapbook--and I'm giving it a light push; mainly at The Booksmith on Haight St. October 7 (a Wed.) at 7...
Anyway: The Banned Books concert at the Main Library here in SF was fun, considering the subject was...
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