{"id":4318,"date":"2010-09-10T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2010-09-14T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:37:13","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Fredric Wertham, the 1950s anti-comic-book crusader? The Library of Congress has opened his private papers<\/a> to scholars of censorship.<\/p>\n

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Burning Korans? No, Vonnegut. Click on photo for story.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is that a photo of a man’s butt on the cover?\u00a0 Your book has just been banned in Canada<\/a>!<\/p>\n

A new front in the fight against censorship: guerrilla libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bummer.\u00a0 The small-brainers in Stockton, Missouri have won a round<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That teen lit festival that “uninvited<\/a>” a guest author and sparked a boycott by other authors?\u00a0 It’s been canceled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A disbarred lawyer is seeking to have a computer game banned<\/a> from sale in America. With the constitution and all, that might be a tall order.\u00a0 Not for the Department of Defense<\/a>, though, which seems to be exempt from the rules that govern the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Speaking of our censorship-friendly military, not only won’t American troops be able to buy that computer game in base exchanges, neither will they be able to access Wikileaks<\/a>, nor will they be able to watch The Tillman Story<\/a> at base theaters.<\/p>\n

Since I mentioned movies, here’s Wikipedia’s exhaustive list of banned films<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To steer us back to the topic of banned books, here’s another exhaustive Wikipedia list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, that was depressing . . . I’m going to mix myself a Gainesville Grasshopper\u2122: two parts gin, one part cr\u00e8me de menthe, 1 teaspoon Koran ashes, well shaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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