Wesley Scroggins

Banned Books Week Should Thank Twitter

The New York Times | LELA MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011

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For an event like this, it never hurts to have a cause célèbre, and this year, organizers needn't have gone very far in search of one. They just had...

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Young Adult Novels Called 'Soft Porn'

Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Speak, Porn Books, Banned Books, Poll, Laurie Halse Anderson, Christian Right, Twenty Boy Summer, Sarah Ockler, Ya Book Censorship, Soft Porn, Stlaughterhouse Five, Book List, YA Books, Missouri, Vonnegut, Censorship, Wesley Scroggins, Censored Book List, Books News

An associate professor attacked the reading list of a Missouri public school district this weekend, calling three books "soft pornography." The profes...

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