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L.A.C.K. & Censoround
November 26, 2003
You'd think he'd be kinda proud!
Calcutta issued an injuction preventing the sale of Ka, which has already been banned in Bangladesh, after author Taslima Nasrin was sued by fellow writer Syed Shamsul Haque over the description of their three-night sexual encounter in the book.
[TT] The Guardian via Blog of a Bookslut
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
9:51:03 AM
When available, it's an interesting site
Bad Books Library is a large list of books that aren't available in the public libraries of Dublin, ranging from Anarchy in Action to The Tao of Pooh. Be forewarned that, like most Geocities sites, it has a tendency to become "temporarily unavailable" when it has "exceeded its allocated data transfer."
[TT] via A-librarians
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
9:45:00 AM
November 20, 2003
"She felt embarrassed and upset and humiliated."
The parents of two black students at a Florida high school have asked for the book A Land Remembered to be removed the school's reading curriculum in part because white students laughed when a passage containing the word "nigger" was read during class.
[TT] Sarasota Herald-Tribune via MobyLives
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:00:00 PM
November 13, 2003
"...the actions that Dr. Haysbert took fly in the face of that."
The American Society of Newspaper Editors decided to drop funding to Hampton University for its high school journalism institute after the school administration confiscated copies of the student newspaper the Hampton Script because the editors didn't publish a letter from acting president JoAnn Haysbert on the front page.
[TT] CNN.com via The Morning News
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:48:51 PM
"But you know who we mean."
Because of a court injunction, newspapers in England and Wales aren't allowed to report former servant George Smith's allegation that he witnessed Prince Charles and his former assistant Michael Fawcett engaged in a sex act. Media distributors have even gone so far as to not deliver foreign publications that mention the story.
[TT] Slate
[TT]Le Monde
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:35:29 PM
November 7, 2003
"...calculated to entertain by frightening..."
Malaysia has banned "ghostly stories" because, according to Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung, "These materials will create an unhealthy picture in the minds of the readers." They didn't ban the Harry Potter books, finding them to be "benign."
[TT] The Australian via MobyLives
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
5:00:52 PM
November 6, 2003
This all sounds vaguely familiar...
The House has passed a bill requiring international studies departments at universities to show a favorable view of US foreign policy or face a cut in federal funding.
Meanwhile, Jack Kingston, a Republican rep for Georgia, wants to pass a law requiring secondary institutions to be politically neutral because "there's a concern that college campuses have become the great bastion of liberal indoctrination as opposed to liberal education and that the college professors are bullying kids and using their microphones, so to speak, to intimidate dissenting thought."
Also, the National Rifle Association had a blacklist of entertainers to boycott for their views on gun control.
Is it me or did someone one... say, Ann Coulter... bring Joe McCarthy back from the dead?
[TT] Salon.com
[TT] Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN.com & Daily Record via Google News
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:05:02 PM
"...makes Osama Bin Laden into a hero of sorts..."
Daniel D. Chiras, author of the book Environmental Science: Creating a Sustainable Future, is suing Texas State Board of Education for rejecting the text for public schools. They say the book contains factual errors; he says they don't agree with his political viewpoints.
[TT] Salon.com
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
4:00:00 PM
November 5, 2003
"I wrote them. Why should I have to defend them?"
The new issue of Bookslut has been published, which features my column about Robert Cormier and The Chocolate War, entitled "Even When You Win, You Lose."
Incidently, I have a list of all two of the Banned Bookslut columns in the L.A.C.K. Archive.
[TT] Bookslut
[EDITOR'S NOTE] The L.A.C.K. Archive link now goes to Bookslut's Banned Bookslut archive.
posted by Chris Zammarelli at
1:05:00 PM
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