Search Results by tag: banned books

Freedom to Read Week kicks off with coast-to-coast programming

Canada’s Freedom to Read week kicked off its 32nd annual celebrations on Feb. 21, with events including readings, talks, book clubs, and more hosted nationwide over the following week by the Book and Periodical Council. ... Read More »

February 23, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture, Book news

Book links round-up: Vonnegut vetoed, deliberately bad writing, and more

By Jason Spencer

Missouri school bans Slaughterhouse-Five In related news, celebrate Banned Books Week Sept. 24 - Oct. 1 The results of the 2011 ... Read More »

July 29, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Freedom to Read Week event round-up

By Sue Carter

Much of the debate preceding this year's national Freedom to Read Week (Feb. 20-26) has focused on Alabama publisher NewSouth Books' edited version of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. No doubt this sensitive ... Read More »

February 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries

Pentagon celebrates Banned Books Week by destroying spy memoir

By Stuart Woods

Just in time for Banned Books Week comes news that the Pentagon has overseen the destruction of a book deemed to contain classified information about the war in Afghanistan. Earlier this month, The Washington Post ... Read More »

September 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Four magazines die, a classic threatened (again), and the two-timing ways of Archie Andrews

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from around the Web: The foodie bride's lament: Condé Nast-owned magazines Gourmet, Cookie, Elegant Bride, and Modern Bride all cease publication More book banning madness: Toronto parent wants Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird ... Read More »

October 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Banned books

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

It's the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, and their website features lists of frequently challenged books covering various eras on their website. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale is 37th on the ALA's list of the ... Read More »

September 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

U.K. exports censorious libel laws

By Stuart Woods

Just in time for Banned Books Week, which runs until Oct. 6, The New York Times reports how a loophole in English law, combined with the globalized booktrade, may have a deleterious effect on freedom ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks – Naomi Klein loved/hated by the National Post, Vincent Lam’s first draft crap, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: The National Post paid for excerpts from Naomi Klein's book, then slammed her in its editorial pages “ um, isn't this usually called "editorial independence"? (The New York Times) Vincent Lam on ... Read More »

September 24, 2007 | Filed under: Book links, Industry news

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