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Don’t Ban What You Don’t Understand

Ashley M. Hill - March 16, 2012

Our literary taboos tend to reflect the things that terrify the majority of society. I vividly recall July 3rd of 2008, when I got cornered by two friends while discussing the required reading list for a middle school in Olathe (or somewhere in that area). One, a father of a child a couple years away […]

What’s taboo? What’s bannable? What’s in good taste?

Ted Boone - March 15, 2012

I am behind schedule for this week’s blog post, so instead of wrapping my ideas in a clever structure, I’m just going to address this week’s questions head-on. I know, it’s a bold choice. That’s just how I roll. Commence the Answering of Questions! What’s taboo in literature: Nothing. I denounce censorship in almost every […]

It’s None of Your Business!!!

Eliza Jaquays - March 14, 2012

Censorship is a double-edged sword. There are several books on the banned books list that I’ve read simply because they were banned whereas I’ve never decided not to read a book because somebody else banned it. I never really paid attention to what book was and was not banned. For most of my life, the […]

Who Moved My Book?

R.L. Naquin - March 14, 2012

It bothers me that the year is now 2012 and book-banning is still a topic of conversation. Shouldn’t we, as a society, have moved past this by now? We have not. And as long as we have individual thinkers, censorship will exist. There will never be a time when everyone agrees on everything. For most […]