It’s “Banned Books Week.” The American Library Association rolls out this observance every year to “highlight…the value of free and open access to information” and “draw… national attention to the harms of censorship.” As an American who prizes the First Amendment and who writes and reads what she pleases, I suppose I should be allContinue reading “Banned Books Week: thanks, but I’ll pass”
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Open Book: Betty Smith and Rumer Godden
A roundup of what’s been on the bookshelf lately.
Ellen Kolb 