Search Results by tag: censorship

Atwood’s “dog’s breakfast”

When is a protest not a protest? These days, apparently when it involves Margaret Atwood. Some readers might remember her appearance at the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony, held at the Four Seasons hotel in ... Read More »

February 23, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: More cuts at Borders, Atwood’s Dubai antics, and more

By Stuart Woods

Borders announces more layoffs, cutting 136 jobs at their corporate offices After bowing out of the Emirates Airlines International Festival of Literature in Dubai earlier this week over concerns of censorship, Margaret Atwood decides she'll ... Read More »

February 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Gay author denied a chance to speak to N.B. high schools

By Steven W. Beattie

Adam Alex Sanchez, an openly gay author whose book, Rainbow Boys, was included on the American Library Association's list of Best Books for Young Adults in 2002, has been refused the opportunity to speak to ... Read More »

October 14, 2008 | Filed under: 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

Publisher of controversial Mohammed novel firebombed

By Nathan Whitlock

As previously noted on Quillblog, publication of the novel The Jewel of Medina was canceled by Random House U.S. due to the possibility that it might offend Muslims and perhaps initiate attacks by those at ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Two takes on censorship

By Stuart Woods

Responding to complaints by a Muslim creationist that its contents were defamatory and blasphemous, a Turkish court has banned Internet users from viewing Richard Dawkins' website. Meanwhile, here in North America, Scholastic has pulled all ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Sarah Palin vs libraries

By Nathan Whitlock

There is already more than enough troubling and tawdry whoop-de-doo surrounding Sarah Palin, John McCain's pick for the vice-presidential slot, to make the whole circus worth watching, but this paragraph from a long article in ... Read More »

September 3, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Random House blacklisted for The Jewel of Medina

By Stuart Woods

The controversy surrounding Sherry Jones's novel The Jewel of Medina “ which Random House U.S. decided to pull earlier this month, citing fears of terroristic violence “ continues to grow. Two weeks ago, none other ... Read More »

August 29, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Danish publisher wants controversial U.S. novel

By Sara Forsyth

Earlier this month, Random House U.S. decided to pull Sherry Jones's novel The Jewel of Medina, for fear its content (about the child bride of the prophet Mohammed) would "incite acts of violence by a ... Read More »

August 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Random House pushes the envelope, then pulls back

By Stuart Woods

Presumably, the U.K. arm of Random House Children's Books knew what it was getting into when it published the latest children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson, titled My Sister Jodie, in which one of the characters ... Read More »

August 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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