Celebrate Banned Books Week: September 24 - October 1
by Zia ~ September 27th, 2005. Filed under: Books.Last night, I was listening to a podcast that talked about Lolita. The content was pretty facile, but can you imagine the furor if Lolita were a new book today? Not only would this administration try to ban it, but Nabakov’s computer would be seized by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security would try to get records of library patrons who had checked it out, and some conservative home-schooling crank would put together a google map of every bookstore that carried it.
So celebrate Banned Book Week; censorship is closer at hand than you think.
