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Banning Books Is Censorship

Jane Friedman | Posted 12.01.2012 | Books
Read More: Banned, Hubert Selby Jr, William Styron, Banned Books, James Jones, Banned Books Week, Pearl Buck, Alice Walker, Jean Craighead George, Bette Greene, Censorship, Books News
Jane Friedman

Let's celebrate Banned Books Week by reading many of these books that have been unfairly censored.

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Creative Cultural Cross Referencing (How to Link Stephen Sondheim to the Original Siamese Twins)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Scott Barry Kaufman, Peter Glazer, Bob Merrill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Conjoined Twins, E. L. Doctorow, Fanny Brice, Stephen Sondheim, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Phd, Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Jule Styne, Nick Arnstein, Flower Drum Song, Erika Chong Shuch, Gentleman Farmers, The Boys in the Band, Douglas Fairbanks, Chang and Eng Bunker, Philip Kan Gotanda, Yunah Hong, Side Show, Together (Wherever We Go), Edna Ferber, The Good Earth, UC Berkeley, Show Boat, Pearl Buck, Catch a Falling Star, Daisy and Violet Hilton, Marlene Dietrich, I Dream of Chang and Eng, Anna May Wong, Gypsy: A Musical Fable, Ragtime, Mart Crowley, The Thief of Baghdad, The Toll of the Sea, Funny Girl, Piccadilly, Rags, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Let's look at two recent events, play a little cultural mashup, and examine the results.

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A Pearl: My Family's Life in China

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Pearl Buck, Female Nobel Prize Winners, Burying the Bones, Women Nobel Prize Winners, Women Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, Video, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

Tom Matlack celebrates the remarkable life of his great-aunt, Pearl Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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25 Novels You Can Read on a Beach Without Embarrassing Yourself (PHOTOS, POLL)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Peter Temple, Goethe, James Salter, Alan Furst, Tim O'Brien, Arthur C. Clarke, Pearl Buck, John Cheever, Slidepollajax, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

This summer, I'm thinking Reading Lite. An iced drink, (make mine an Arnold Palmer). A cool breeze. A careful application of sunscreen. A thin book, so I can get through it and still grab some zzzs. Books like these.

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Apologies to Pearl S. Buck

Celeste Ng | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Edward P. Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Stereotypes, Chinese Culture, Arundhati Roy, The Good Earth, Fiction, The Known World, Nonfiction, Pearl Buck, Khaled Hosseini, Culture, Books News
Celeste Ng

Last weekend was Chinese New Year, a time when many people are introduced to bits of Chinese culture. So I have to make this confession: I hate The Good Earth.

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