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dale-estey's picture
Oct.24.2013
Mensa has created this book list. Now, I just assume I'm in the top two percent of intelligence in the known world. Mind you, I have had no intelligence testing since university, and even then I never went after the results. However - just perhaps - I am not as smart as I think I am. I've only read...
jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Oct.23.2013
I just found out an old friend is on her way to me. It's the last time I'll "see" her. I've known her for eight years, but other girls and women have known her for much longer. Her name is Alice McKinley, but her family calls her Al. Believe it or not, Alice's stories have been regularly on the...
arabella-grayson's picture
Sep.29.2013
    The first time I read Fahrenheit 451, I had trouble sleeping, for weeks. I couldn’t imagine a society were reading was outlawed. An adolescent bibliophile back then, I’d think about Ray Bradbury’s dystopian tale every time I raised my hand in class to ask a question and a teacher told...
dale-estey's picture
Sep.24.2013
As an author I encourage all and everybody to read anything they come across. This is why I praise Harry Potter and Fifty Shades of Grey. If someone reads one thing they will be more encouraged to read another. The more they read of one type of writing, the more likely they will...
cheryl-rainfield's picture
Apr.13.2012
Lauren Myracle, author of SHINE, ttfn, and many more popular YA books, talks beautifully and honestly in this article about her books being banned and challenged, the horrible criticisms she’s received, the blizzard of fan mail she gets (a hundred emails a day!!), the awful mix...
dale-estey's picture
Jan.19.2012
Is this a tempest in a teapot?   Banned: William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was banned by Arizona as part of an ousted Mexican-American ethnic studies program   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   Shakespeare work axed in Arizona schools as law bans 'ethnic studies' By NINA...
aurora-levins-morales's picture
Jan.17.2012
On Not Being Banned To Former Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal, and the Tucson Unified School District. I am writing to protest discriminatory actions on your part that amount to defamation of my...
dale-estey's picture
Sep.26.2011
I gotta tell ya - as God is my witness - I am becoming sore tired of petty people. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *   INFOGRAPHIC: Top Ten Banned Or Challenged Books Of 2010To mark Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct 1), we've created an infographic to highlight the most banned or challenged...
dale-estey's picture
Sep.25.2011
One wonders how The Bible was ever allowed. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mark Twain story formally 'unbanned' in US Eve's Diary, embargoed in 1906 over its illustrations, formally restored to library to launch Banned Books Week by Alison Flood Mark Twain: "The deep unconscious irony of it...
david-valdes-greenwood's picture
Apr.18.2011
My life doesn’t seem very radical most days: I teach my students how to write, come home for family dinner around the table, put my daughter to bed, and then start picking up the abandoned Barbies, empty water glasses, and half-read magazines that comprise the domestic detritus of my house. But...
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