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February 18, 2015
The Perils of Recommendations — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week, February 22-28, 2015. Entry #13: poet and bookseller Lynn Davies on keeping true to the bookseller’s code. “Has a customer ever objected to a particular book on our shelves?” I ask my coworkers at Westminster Books, an ...
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February 17, 2015
Abuse by Proxy
Freedom to Read Week, February 22-28, 2015. Entry #12: author Jordan Krall on exploring the edges of perversion. Someone somewhere, I’m sure, would like to ...
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Abuse by Proxy — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week, February 22-28, 2015. Entry #12: author Jordan Krall on exploring the edges of perversion. Someone somewhere, I’m sure, would like to see the books of Peter Sotos banned for one reason or another. Though most of ...
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February 12, 2015
The Economics of Time
Freedom to Read Week, February 22-28, 2015 Entry #11: New Brunswick author Chuck Bowie on the importance of making time for what you love. Infants ...
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The Economics of Time — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week, February 22-28, 2015 Entry #11: New Brunswick author Chuck Bowie on the importance of making time for what you love. Infants and toddlers have all the time in the world to read. Sadly, they cannot reap ...
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February 11, 2015
The Ethical Treatment of Meat (and authors)
Freedom to Read Week, Feb. 22-28, 2015 Entry #10: author/editor Claude Lalumière on zombies, wise students, and judgmental parents. I occasionally get invited by teachers to ...
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The Ethical Treatment of Meat (and authors) — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week, Feb. 22-28, 2015 Entry #10: author/editor Claude Lalumière on zombies, wise students, and judgmental parents. I occasionally get invited by teachers to meet their students. Even more interesting to me is that I’ve been asked to do ...
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February 10, 2015
It’s hard to censor what you don’t even have
Freedom to Read Week, Feb. 22-28, 2015 Entry #9: bestselling author Terry Fallis on the inescapable absence of books in some people’s lives. Freedom to ...
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It’s hard to censor what you don’t even have — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week, Feb. 22-28, 2015 Entry #9: bestselling author Terry Fallis on the inescapable absence of books in some people’s lives. Freedom to Read Week is about more than intellectual freedom The last week in February is Freedom ...
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February 9, 2015
Fictionalizing the Mythological
Freedom to Read Week, Feb. 22-28, 2015 Entry #8: author Barry Webster on Bible stories, censorship, and the dangers of being “almost banned.” Timothy Findley’s ...
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