Fifty Shades Of Grey Banned From Florida Libraries
The erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" may have topped recent bestseller charts, but it's proven a little too hot for librarians in east central Flor...
The erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" may have topped recent bestseller charts, but it's proven a little too hot for librarians in east central Flor...
Lauren Myracle | Posted 04.16.2012
My books first appeared on the Naughty List in 2007, and that time, when I was given the news, I cried. But...surprise! I'm still here, and my books are still being banned, and guess what? Being an author of banned books is cool.
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.09.2012
NEW YORK -- The more popular "The Hunger Games" trilogy becomes, the more reasons some parents and educators have found to question whether it belongs...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.30.2012
Drake High School in North Dakota made headlines in October of 1973 when school board members burned 32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter-House Five...
Paula Beltrán | Posted 04.08.2012
Diaz is behind theLibrotraficante movement, arguably the most creative of responses to the Tucson's School District's controversial decision.
Chan Koonchung | Posted 04.07.2012
Many features of the "1984" Big Brother state -- thought control, double-think, newspeak, fact distortion, memory mutability, wanton state repression and infallibility of the Party -- still ring true in present-day China.
By Daniel Lefferts for Bookish: James Joyce’s "Ulysses" turns 90 today. The nearly 800-page behemoth, long regarded as one of the best (and most ...
By Emily Temple for Flavorwire: The decades-old controversy over Salman Rushdie’s "The Satanic Verses" has been in the news again recently follow...
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 12.02.2011
When Mark Melvin asked his friend to order him a Pulitzer Prize-winning history book, he didn't expect to have to file a lawsuit in order to read it. ...
Cecilia Galante | Posted 11.29.2011
When I received the news that my first novel had been officially banned, I clapped my hands together once, as if catching a fly, and shouted. Being banned in this country is an honor.
Lisa Catherine Harper | Posted 11.29.2011
It shouldn't matter what kids want to read. They should just read. If they want to spend half an hour doing MadLibs, or reading a sports magazine, or a comic book, or novel, or a fix-it book, or a book of jokes they should. It's all reading.
American Library Association | Posted 11.28.2011
There were 346 recorded attempts to remove materials from libraries in 2010, and more than 11,000 attempts recorded since OIF began compiling information on book challenges in 1990.
Posted 11.22.2011
To mark Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct 1), we've created an infographic to highlight the most banned or challenged books of last year. Click below to ...
AP | Posted 11.21.2011
By the Associated Press REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) - Two months after removing two books from its curriculum and school library, a southwest Missouri schoo...
Rocco Staino | Posted 11.18.2011
To help celebrate Banned Books Week I have compiled a list of 10 books that deal with censorship in various areas.
Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.25.2011
In a month from now, multiple organizations nationwide will participate in "Banned Books Week," an annual event that celebrates first amendment rights...
Carolyn Bucior | Posted 10.02.2011
Eighty-six years later, the debate over evolution continues, its central ideologies as old and thoughtful as Copernicus, as new and thoughtless as Simac and Michele Bachmann, as inert as rosary beads, as combustible as pure hydrogen.
Ru Freeman | Posted 08.21.2011
As the parent of three avid readers, I agree with Meghan Cox Gurdon's point that what is considered "banning" in the book trade is known in the parenting world as doing our job.
csmonitor.com | Posted 06.14.2011
The US Justice Department is asking a federal judge in South Carolina to allow it to intervene in a lawsuit against a sheriff who allegedly forbids pr...
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 06.11.2011
It's National Library Week and The American Library Association has published its report on the State of American Libraries. Among the trends report...
nytimes.com | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 06.04.2011
A committee of American Roman Catholic bishops announced Wednesday that a popular book about God by Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, a theologian at Fordh...
News, Weather, Sports | Posted 05.25.2011
After several complaints from parents, school leaders have pulled a national bestseller novel from middle schools shelves after determining it's conte...
usatoday.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Shortly after the fall semester began this year, Wesley Scroggins, a parent of three in Republic, Mo., publicly criticized the local school district f...
kansascity.com | Posted 05.25.2011
According to government figures, there are about 7,000 publishing firms in Iran today. Even if only 1,000 of those publishers delivers five books a ye...
Jim Trombetta | Posted 05.25.2011
In "The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!," I uncover over two hundred pre-Code horror and crime comics of the 1950s.
Posted 05.08.2012