Toronto Public Library joins Book Sanctuary movement to protect and promote banned books
The books in TPL's collection feature works for adults, teens, and children.
A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
The books in TPL's collection feature works for adults, teens, and children.
The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.
"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.
Both books portray societies in which strife and discord have been replaced with a kind of analgesic conformity, but the social cohesion comes at a stiff price.
The campaign includes a grant to schools as well as grassroots organizing and support for affected writers.
The bill makes it more likely that school boards will ban or pull books from their shelves to avoid potential charges.
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
"This is the final victory of the censor: when people cease to be able to imagine a non-censorious society."
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.
The stunt by the junior senator from Texas backfired in the most spectacular way.