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February 9, 2015
Fictionalizing the Mythological — Freedom to Read
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 Not Wanted on the Voyage is frequently challenged by Canadian school boards. Parents have tried ...
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February 8, 2015
Privilege, troubled teens, and crumpled paper — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week, February 22-28, 2015 Entry #7: author/editor Jen Hale writes of teenage rebellion, balls of paper, and Rob Lowe. Confession time: when I was 14, I was deeply in love with Rob Lowe. Yes, long before he ...
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February 6, 2015
Being uncomfortable with ideas (and condoms) — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week: February 22-28, 2015. Entry #6: fantasy author Kathleen Peacock on being uncomfortable with the ideas of others. And condoms! Neat, pre-packaged lies. We’re sitting around the table—my friend Jayden, her husband John, and me. It’s late. I’m ...
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February 5, 2015
Free Speech in the Age of Distraction — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week: February 22-28, 2015. Freedom to Read, Entry #5: author Chris Benjamin on Canada, free speech, and how bad it’s getting. Those Charlie Hebdo guys were racist jerks. Their supposed satire was facile. They weren’t targeting the powerful ...
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February 4, 2015
The (il)logical extremes of censorship — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week: February 22-28, 2015. Freedom to Read, Entry #4: American science fiction author Nick DiChario on the apex of all book challenges One of my all-time favorite banned books is Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, in large part because in the ...
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February 3, 2015
The Typewriter as Weapon — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week: February 22-28, 2015. Freedom to Read, Entry #3: author Ian Colford on philosophy, literature, and authoritarian regimes My first book is a collection of short stories narrated by a refugee from Communist Albania. While I was researching it ...
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February 2, 2015
Shaping Discourse though Satire — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week: February 22-28, 2015. Freedom to Read, Entry #2: author Elise Moser on Charlie Hebdo and the concept of satire As I write this, the first issue of Charlie Hebdo since the massacres has appeared. The media are ...
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February 1, 2015
The loves of flightless waterfowl — Freedom to Read
Freedom to Read Week: February 22-28, 2015 Freedom to Read, Entry #1: your humble blogger reveals the soul-scorching evil that is penguin lust In 2005, a book of incalculable destructive proportions was unleashed, with malice aforethought, upon an innocent and unsuspecting public. Within ...
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The freedom to read about the loves of flightless waterfowl
Freedom to Read Week: February 22-28, 2015 Freedom to Read, Entry #1: your humble blogger reveals the soul-scorching evil that is penguin lust In 2005, a book of incalculable destructive proportions was unleashed, with malice aforethought, upon an innocent and unsuspecting public. Within ...
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January 29, 2015
Freedom to Read, all the time
Let’s face it: the recent events concerning the satirical French newsmagazine Charlie Hebdo have raised any number of inarguably troubling issues. I don’t feel myself knowledgeable enough to comment at any great length on the attack itself, the motivations of the ...
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