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Celebrate Banned Books By Buying Everything On This List

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

We forgot to remind you that it's Banned Books Week here on Earth... as opposed to on Mars, where some of these anti-First Amendment types like your future VP (the rumored basis for Voldemort in the oft-banned Harry Potter series) apparently hail from.

Here's a list of banned books, plus events promoting authors rights in your area...

1984

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Alice in Wonderland

Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl

Beloved

Brave New World

The Bible

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

The Call of the Wild

Canterbury Tales

Catcher in the Rye

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Clan of the Cave Bear

The Color Purple

...pissed yet? We're not even through the C's... and, after all, this is a very abbreviated list...

If you want to express your concern, here's a taste of events going on all over the country. Find an event near you on this page.

San Francisco Center for the Book (ongoing)

Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship 

 

Black-Eyed Sally's in Hartford, CT (tonight)

An ACLU event "dedicated to appreciating the music of artists who refuse to let authorities dictate their freedom of expression."

 

Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, GA (was Saturday)

Wine and Cheese Party with readings from favorite banned books


The Nyack Library in Nyack, NY (October 4th at 2pm)
High school students will read from banned books. Additionally, we will have a Banned Books display for the whole week.

For more events, click here.


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Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Hooksexup, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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