Two for Tuesday: How banned are the banned books?
Topics discussed: National Basketball Association, podcasts, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, You Must Remember This, Charles Manson, Karina Longworth, President Obama, WTF with Marc Maron, The Bugle, John Oliver, The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, W.… Read more »
Texas school district thinks “Banned Books Week” means they’re supposed to ban books this week
Oh, Highland Park, Texas Independent School District Superintendant Dawson Orr. You scamp! I’d love to give you the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe, when you went ahead with this new… Read more »
Banned Books Week turns focus to comics this year
Banned Books Week will be celebrated once again this September, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) is highlighting comics that have been challenged and banned in an effort to… Read more »
Melville House celebrates Banned Books Week
We’ve been reading banned books all week long at Melville House! You can read them too. All of the books below are available for 20% off the list price on… Read more »
Locked up with Vonnegut
One intrepid individual has an especially close relationship with the author… Read more »
Banned Book Week: a go-round
It is one of the timeless truths of literature that any book worth being banned is one worth being read. Any book with something in it that could inspire indignant… Read more »
They read it for the articles …
Since 1970, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) has produced Braille editions of Playboy magazine. Service was briefly interrupted in December, 1985, after thirteen-term, Ohio congressman Chalmers Wylie… Read more »