{"id":4489,"date":"2010-10-25T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2010-10-25T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:56:50","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maps?  I love &#8217;em!  Well, maybe except for this one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;source=embed&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=112317617303679724608.00047051ed493efec0bb8&amp;ll=38.68551,-96.503906&amp;spn=27.344005,43.857422&amp;z=4&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>View <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;source=embed&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=112317617303679724608.00047051ed493efec0bb8&amp;ll=38.68551,-96.503906&amp;spn=27.344005,43.857422&amp;z=4\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2010<\/a> in a larger map<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has figured out a way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/From-the-news-wires\/2010\/0927\/Operation-Dark-Heart-joins-list-of-banned-books\" target=\"blank\">take a book out of circulation without actually banning it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ellen-hopkins\/banned-books-anticensorship-manifesto_b_744219.html\" target=\"blank\">anti-censorship manifesto<\/a> from the writer who was recently &#8220;disinvited&#8221; from a youth book fair.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri college students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2010\/10\/01\/2267642\/students-protest-professors-call.html\" target=\"blank\">protest professor&#8217;s efforts to ban books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one book that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andrew-shaffer\/the-book-that-was-banned-_b_747194.html\" target=\"blank\">banned before it was even written<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A great column about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/berkley\/mysource\/entertainment\/x1936771913\/Kevin-Frisch-And-the-banned-played-on\" target=\"blank\">joys of reading books that parents might want to ban<\/a>, and why it&#8217;s so important to read them.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common reasons people try to ban books is sex.\u00a0\u00a0Here is some writerly advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/8056890\/Writing-a-sex-scene-is-an-impossible-task.html\" target=\"blank\">writing about sex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, it&#8217;s <a href=\" http:\/\/www.kxan.com\/dpp\/news\/education\/Father-gets-book-banned-from-school\" target=\"blank\">always about sex<\/a>, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Enough about sex already . . . uh, not so fast.  Of all the landmark book banning trials, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/8066784\/Lady-Chatterley-trial-50-years-on.-The-filthy-book-that-set-us-free-and-fettered-us-forever.html\" target=\"blank\">this one was the landmarkiest<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2010\/10\/why_theres_no_narnia_in_our_ho.html\" target=\"blank\">Helicopter mom<\/a>, much?  Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>Do you think they&#8217;ll ever release the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/movies\/film_salon\/2010\/10\/15\/racist_looney_tunes\/index.html\" target=\"blank\">censored Looney Tunes cartoons<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll end this roundup with a few lines from W.H. Auden:<\/p>\n<p>Defenseless under the night<br \/>\nOur world in stupor lies;<br \/>\nYet, dotted everywhere,<br \/>\nIronic points of light<br \/>\nFlash out wherever the Just<br \/>\nExchange their messages . . .<\/p>\n<p>And one of those points of light just flashed out in <a href=\" http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2010\/10\/18\/1333867\/san-luis-obispo-high-kaffir-boy.html\" target=\"blank\">San Luis Obispo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps? I love &#8217;em! Well, maybe except for this one: View Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2010 in a larger map The Pentagon has figured out a way to take a book out of circulation without actually banning it. Here&#8217;s a good anti-censorship manifesto from the writer who was recently &#8220;disinvited&#8221; from a youth book fair. 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