In the run-up to Banned Book Week, Firsts London will feature censorship from past centuries. The post England’s Firsts London’s 65th Outing Features Historic Banned Books appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-08-17 20:10:29 UTC ]
As we’ve noted over and over again, the hottest new book trend sweeping the country is to ban them and/or burn them if they don’t align with your weird, paleoconservative, theocratic prejudices. Not great! But as ever is the case with this strange nation, when one group of Americans starts doing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-10 17:01:27 UTC ]
Maia Kobabe’s book “Gender Queer,” about coming out as nonbinary, landed the author at the center of a battle over which books belong in schools, and who gets to make that decision. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-01 23:54:03 UTC ]
Teens across the country are fighting back against censorship and book bans. This guide to how to start a banned book club can help. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-04-26 10:34:00 UTC ]
Recently, we heard about Netflix’s forthcoming adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s famously banned book Lady Chatterley’s Lover (apparently it’s going to be raunchier than Bridgerton, which does seem only fair). To prepare yourself, you may want to start with this video of John Waters—or as William S.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-20 16:04:44 UTC ]
If you’re looking for nonfiction about girls around the world, check out these books, including Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, Hyung-Ju Ko. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-03-30 10:37:00 UTC ]
Whether it’s a banned book duvet cover or a book page throw, a book blanket is the perfect warm and fuzzy—but also extremely smart—gift.- Stacey Megally Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-03 11:33:00 UTC ]
'Banned Book Club' by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada is the true story of Hyun Sook’s years as a South Korean college student under the brutal military regime of the early 1980s. In this 11-page excerpt a naive and apolitical Hyun Sook meets the fearless student members of a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
It’s a good time to be a Kurt Vonnegut fan. While there’s never a bad month to dust off your banned book collection, November encapsulates all things Vonnegutian: the 50th anniversary of Slaughterhouse-Five, the grand opening of the permanent Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library (KVML) in Kurt’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-08 15:29:23 UTC ]
Thomas Morton, an English businessman who had a knack for riling up Puritans, was the author of the first book explicitly banned in the United States. The post The First Banned Book in America appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-11-06 21:30:41 UTC ]
If you have a spare 35 grand or so, you now have a shot at a rare copy of the first book banned in America. Christie’s Auction House in New York recently announced that it will be auctioning a copy of New Canaan by Thomas Morton, a 1637 political satire that caused outrage among New […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-10-03 11:00:38 UTC ]
Almost universally, books in America are challenged because they tackle difficult subjects, writes author I.W. Gregorio. "Police brutality. Coming out. Drug use. Issues of gender identity. Disability. Gun violence. Suicide." But books—particularly those that delve into tough topics, save lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Banned Book Week, which started on Sunday, reminds us that no one sets out to write a banned book. But as long as speech threatens those in power, censorship, even in a country that espouses one of the most expansive free-speech regimes in the world, remains inevitable. Given that book banning... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A firestorm over a banned book about an Israeli-Arab love story, Pope Francis’s new book on mercy, and a reading list of books by Muslim authors are some of the hottest topics in religion publishing today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Hollywood movie maker, an audio book producer and publishers seeking Dutch and French translation rights are the silver lining in Ted Dawe's censorship nightmare. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
OPINION: The interim ban of Ted Dawe's novel Into the River is, in my opinion, unwarranted, ridiculous and troubling for the future of simlar novels that discuss issues that are part of many teenage lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
September 21-27 is Banned Books Week. Here we offer a list of titles that have been challenged, restricted, removed, or banned in 2013 and 2014. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]