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  Banned Books, Bank Books & Poetry Performance Get Booked

  2307 readersBanned Books Week has brought many literary events. Here is today's Booked feature. The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe will host a Banned Books Week Party featuring Mike Edison, Harold Price Fahringer, Richard Nash, and live music today, September 29th starting at 7pm. (New York, NY) Books by the Bank, Cincinnati's premiere book festival will take place on

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  Banned Books, Bank Books & Poetry Performance Get Booked

  869 readersBanned Books Week has brought many literary events. Here is today’s Booked feature. The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe will host a Banned Books Week Party featuring Mike Edison, Harold Price Fahringer, Richard Nash, and live music today, September 29th starting at 7pm. (New York, NY) Books by the Bank, Cincinnati’s premiere book festival will take place on

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  Banned Book Party & How I Learned Get Booked

  4361 readersHere are some literary events to spice up your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Crank series author Ellen Hopkins will headline an event in honor of Banned Books Week. See her on Wednesday, September 28th at the NYPL Grand Central Library starting 4:30 p.m. (New York, NY) Mike Edison will

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  Los Angeles Review of Books Taps YA Authors for Banned Books Week

  6736 readersThe Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) celebrated Banned Books Week with a series of essays by YA authors called “Getting Banned.” The authors in the Getting Banned essays have all had their work banned or challenged at some point. Follow these links to read essays by Ron Koertge, Ellen Hopkins, Susan Patron, Sonya Sones and

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  Mike Edison Goes 3D In New Book Trailer

  5495 readersAuthor Mike Edison built a 3D book trailer for Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers-An American Tale of Sex and Wonder, a history of  the four major pornographic magazines in the U.S. in the 20th century –Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler and Screw. Edison explained why he went 3D: “It was one of those eureka

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  Infographic Explores Top Ten Banned Or Challenged Books Of 2010

  4325 readersAs readers around the country celebrate Banned Books Week, The Huffington Post has created a massive infographic with excerpts from the top ten of the 348 books that were threatened in school libraries or curriculum last year. Follow this link to explore the graphic with a laundry list of controversial themes, including: “homosexuality,” “religious viewpoint,” “unsuited

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  Banned Books Week: Have You Read a Banned Book?

  740 readersThis week is Banned Books Week. To celebrate, the American Library Association has compiled their list of the top 10 most challenged books of 2009. Here are the books and the reasons why each one was challenged: ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle Reasons: nudity, sexually explicit, offensive language, drugs, and unsuited to age group And Tango Makes

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  Vietnamese Youth Seek Out Banned Books

  3723 readersThe Communist regime in Vietnam continues to ban books, but according to an AP report in The Washington Post, that isn’t stopping young people from finding copies of books they want to read. Whether it’s from Amazon, illegal downloading or shopping from street vendors, resourceful teens are finding ways to get copies of books that have

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  How Booksellers Can Fight Censorship During Banned Books Week

  12678 readersThe American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression wants to help booksellers stop book banning. The organization has a new set of tools to help booksellers participate in the “Internet read-out” that is happening during Banned Books Week (Sept. 24-Oct. 1). Essentially during Internet read-out week, readers, booksellers, librarians and book fans alike will be encouraged to