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The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill
"The bill creates strong incentives for schools to remove or avoid a wide range of books and materials," wrote PRH SVP Skip Dye in a letter to lawmakers, adding that, if passed, the law would also force educators and librarians to self-censor, resulting in "further marginalization of vulnerable communities.”
The post Penguin Random House Urges U.S. Congress to Reject Republican Book Banning Bill appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/penguin-random-house-urges-u-s-congress-to-reject-republican-book-banning-bill/#BookBanning #Diversity #FreedomtoRead #Librarians #PenguinRandomHouse
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#MargaretAtwood #speaksout against #antiLGBTQ+ #bookbans saying #attacks on #Diverse #Literature can lead to “#openseason” on other #issues.
Atwood spoke about #bookbanning #culturewars and the #Hungarian #government’s #decision to #censor #books with #LGBTQ+ #themes.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Hungary #Feminism #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/12/margaret-atwood-book-bans-budapest-hungary/
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"Nevertheless, in a statement posted to X on Monday, Eigel did say he would burn “woke” books brought into Missouri schools “on the front lawn of the governor’s mansion.”"
So this sitting GOP state senator seen in a video not burning books but burning boxes would like to burn books for real. How is that any better?
Viral video shows flamethrower-wielding Missouri state senators burning empty boxes, not books
CLAIM: A video shows Missouri Republican state Sens. Bill Eigel and Nick Schroer using a flamethrower for a “literal book burning.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The video shows the two lawmakers burning empty cardboard boxes, not books, according to both politicians. It was taken on Friday at a fundraiser hosted by a local GOP group where flamethrowers were being auctioned. Eigel and Schroer were demonstrating the devices on the boxes, the event’s organizer confirmed.
#USPol #Politics #News #Missouri #GOP #BurningBooks #BookBurning #BookBanning #Republicans #MAGA #MOGOP #woke #AP #AssociatedPress
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-false-flamethrower-missouri-senators-books-ban-186453919126
