Category Archives: Banned Books

When Underpants are Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Underpants.

It’s Banned Books Weeks again, the saddest time of year when the American Library Association helps us celebrate literacy’s fight against the censorious white people who make it their business to make sure all the rest of us are protected from … Continue reading

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Warning: Contains Offensive Words.

Most American schoolchildren still read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and if they don’t, it’s because it’s one of the most frequently banned books in the US. If it seems paradoxical that a book could be both its nation’s most frequently … Continue reading

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Stack O’ Banned Books.

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Are You Still There, God? It’s Me, Blubber.

It’s Banned Books Week again and across the country, libraries, bookstores, teachers and readers are celebrating that which our founding fathers labored over quills and parchment for and our father and forefathers fought and died for, the very freedoms that we alone … Continue reading

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