by Rachael Kelly | Sep 25, 2017 | Events, Quote of the Week
Banned Books Week September 24–30, 2017 “Book banning” is as antiquated a term as it is a practice – isn’t it? Not according to the American Library Association. Between 2000 and 2009 alone, more than 5,000 challenges to remove books from libraries...
by Allison Bucknell | Sep 25, 2014 | Around Town: Books and Magazine Events in NYC, Events, Opportunities, Uncategorized
September 25th, 2pm Higgins Hall Auditorium (018), Pratt Institute, 1 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY Hilton Als, Writer-in-Residence at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and one of the most original thinkers and prose stylists of his generation, will give two...
by Allison Bucknell | Sep 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. ~Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower The act of banning books is not a new thing. There’s always been...
