Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible. The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. – Ismail Kadaré
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Sep152012
Banned Books Awareness: How will you celebrate your literary freedom?
A little over one week from now will be the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week, the bibliophile’s annual celebration of the freedom to read, which this year takes place from September 30-October 6, 2012. Sometimes we forget in our daily struggles just how important our intellectual freedom...
Jul222012
Banned Books Awareness: The Political Agenda of the Morality Police
Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, in summary judgment for Texas vs. Johnson, said, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” Anyone is free...