Bookshelves of Lesser Doom
A spot for my on-the-fly mini-posts:
Most everything else is at Bookshelves of Doom.
Most everything else is at Bookshelves of Doom.
Posts tagged censorship
Sep 27 '11
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“I don’t have a problem with her forbidding her daughter to read my book. But imposing her personal beliefs on every child at the school makes her no better than a book burner. As the playwright and journalist Clare Booth Luce once put it: “Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.”
— Sonya Sones, on the many challenges to the ever-fabulous What My Mother Doesn’t Know.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
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Sep 27 '11
Sep 25 '11
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“The truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.”
— Mark Twain
(Source: Guardian)
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Sep 24 '11
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“What they’re doing is making books available to students only if parents or guardians physically come to the school library to check out the books. The books are otherwise being held in a “secure location” within the library, where students cannot access them. These barriers are tantamount to the banning of books and are clearly inconsistent with our democratic freedoms and the free flow of ideas represented by the First Amendment. How do we expect our children to grow up to be inquisitive, educated, participating citizens if we set up such barriers to accessing classic American literature, such as Slaughterhouse Five?”
— Julia Whitehead, executive director of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, on Republic High School’s decision to keep Slaughterhouse Five and Twenty Book Summer in a ‘secure location’ in the library.
(Source: schoollibraryjournal.com)
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Sep 22 '11
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“In their ridiculous notion of a ‘compromise’, a 17 year-old will have to bring in Mom or Dad to check out books of inarguable artistic and educational merit.”
— NCAC Executive Director Joan Bertin, on Republic High School’s decision to shelve Twenty Boy Summer and Slaughterhouse-Five in a ”secure section”.
(Source: ncac.org)
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Sep 7 '11
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A poster from the Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center.
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Jun 22 '11
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“A sort of right-wing group banned a whole bunch of what they called ‘video nasties’. The hunt for a copy of Dawn of the Dead was like the Holy Grail for teenagers in the ’80s where I lived. Before I saw it, I knew all about it: I knew there was a guy who got the top of his head chopped off by a helicopter, I knew there was a moment when someone got their guts ripped out, and it was like: I gotta see this, this sounds great!”
— Simon Pegg, on his early interest in horror movies.
(Source: NPR)
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Feb 11 '11
