Twain, Morrison, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Vonnegut, Salinger—every one of them a public enemy
Once again it’s Banned Books Week.
Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Karin Perry cautions, “It takes only one—one parent, one family, one community member—to deprive [a child’s] right to read.” Your child. My child. All children.
Perry points out 85 books—most are commonly known to all of us—that have been placed on the American Library Association’s Banned Book list at the insistence of zealots who are bent on preserving the moral purity of our youth, a purity promoted by self-appointed guardians who are determined to save our young people from (gasp!) ideas that differ from those of their protectors. Check out this list of banned books, and you’ll probably be surprised and disheartened to find just how much objectionable material you’ve been reading during the past several years. JK
JK :: Sep.30.2009 :: literacy / right to read, book publishing :: No Comments »
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