MEMBER BLOG TAG: banned
| Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:57AM | | | | Written on Water | Tags: glowing blue velvet, a keening violin, lights on the river, BANNED, CENSORED, written in cyber space. the yoga olympics, Oh Natalie, graveyard spiral, Jaffa, guava jelly, la neige, bric-a-brac
| | | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers was perfect for this PEN event celebrating the arrival of many writers from all over the world for the Festival. We came in through an evening fog, looked out big windows at the fading day and watched the lights come on across the water. On stage, the writers stood in front of a blue velvet curtain and a montage of the week ahead began.
The iphone game of BANNED and CENSORED was probably fun for all the young people texting around me. A great idea was the list of books presented by different writers, which will add up to 30 by the end of the week.
Suddenly bird-like violin music erupted around us. Iva Bittová's amazing sound competed with thunder... | | | | | | | Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:21PM | | | | Banned Books | Tags: banned books, public schools, education, Supreme Court
| | | | I read recently a list of titles of children's books and young adult books that had been banned, and I wonder what country I'm living in. Gay penguins are too dangerous to read about? Books that contain words that in a different context would be harmful but between their covers give me the power to understand where racism came from historically?
I remember rather fondly reading all sorts of wondrously devious and perhaps deviant books and short stories when I was in elementary school in the 70s and junior high in the 1980s. What would have become of me if I hadn't been allowed to read these books? Is sexual content so dangerous in the age of AIDS that... | | | | | |
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