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Banned Books Week 2011

September 25, 2011 – 6:59 am

Some years back, a good friend of mine told me a story about her nine-year-old son, who came to her wanting to read a particular series of adult books that he’d heard his late-teenaged siblings talking about. The books in question were great adventure books, but they did contain several explicit mentions of sex – [...]

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Banning books

September 29, 2010 – 7:32 am

“Intellectual freedom can exist only where two essential conditions are met: first, that all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any subject and to convey their ideas in any form they deem appropriate, and second, that society makes an equal commitment to the right of unrestricted access to information and ideas regardless [...]

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Letting In the Dragons, Part IV

October 2, 2009 – 6:30 am

 Several years ago, I was asked to give a speech on the topic of book-banning, from the viewpoint of a fantasy writer. It’s quite long, so I have carved it up into four parts to post as part of Banned Books Week. This is the last of four parts, and the end of the story that I [...]

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Letting the Dragons In, Part III

October 1, 2009 – 6:30 am

 Several years ago, I was asked to give a speech on the topic of book-banning, from the viewpoint of a fantasy writer. It’s quite long, so I have carved it up into four parts to post as part of Banned Books Week. This is the third of four parts. __________ Fantasy is about possibilities; that’s one of [...]

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Letting the Dragons In, Part II

September 30, 2009 – 6:30 am

Several years ago, I was asked to give a speech on the topic of book-banning, from the viewpoint of a fantasy writer. It’s quite long, so I have carved into four parts to post as part of Banned Books Week. This is the second part of four. __________ I wrote that story for this speech, [...]

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Letting the Dragons In, Part I

September 29, 2009 – 6:37 am

Several years ago, I was asked to give a speech on the topic of book-banning, from the viewpoint of a fantasy writer. It’s quite long, so I have carved it up into four parts to post as part of Banned Books Week. It begins with a story, because I am a writer and most things lead me [...]

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It’s Banned Books Week!

September 28, 2009 – 11:13 am

Every year, the American Library Association holds Banned Books Week in September. This is that week. I’ve felt rather strongly about Banned Books Week for a long time – even before I met the teacher who was nearly fired because she put “Dealing With Dragons” on the reading list for her fifth-grade class (a parent, [...]

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