An excerpt from new 2009 release Burn This Book : PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the World by best selling author Toni Morrison, the book’s editor.
Welcome to Banned Books Week 2008 on The Thin Red Line! Continuing today with the top ten "most challenged" books of 2007, today I am featuring Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (number 8 ) and Lauren Myracle’s ttyl (number 7). I believe that I first read Caged Bird when I worked [...]
Welcome to Banned Books Week 2008 on The Thin Red Line! Each fall the American Library Association leads the observance of Banned Books Week, celebrating Americans’ freedom to read by reminding people of the importance of this basic right. Each year, the ALA publishes a list of the previous calendar year’s most "challenged" books. (A [...]
Today’s post was supposed to be a discussion of the reasons Why books are banned. Having written two days in a row about Banned Books Week and having enjoyed the most visitors, page views and comments I’ve yet had in this blog’s short history, I figured it would be [...]
A huge Thank You to everyone who offered a suggestion. I was very pleased with all the responses I received. Many people seemed shocked to learn that books they’ve read as school assignments have been the target of censorship campaigns. Others expressed incredulity [...]
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