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9 Shocking Books You Won’t Believe Are Banned

It’s Banned Books Week, launched in 1982 in response to the sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools. The annual, week-long event highlights the value of free and open access to information and brings together the book community in efforts against censorship. Lists…
BookTrib
September 26, 2024
MiscellanyPotpourri - Featured

PEN America Rallies for Salman Rushdie

In response to the recent attack against Salman Rushie at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, PEN America, The New York Public Library and Penguin Random House gathered today to read selected texts from Rushdie’s body of work. The readers included Paul Auster, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Tina Brown, Kiran…
BookTrib
August 19, 2022
Miscellany

13 Authors on Banning Books and Censorship

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. It’s Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the right to read. Launched in 1982, Banned Books Week was a response to an increase in the number of books being challenged by groups and individuals. Here, we’ve rounded up the perspectives of thirteen authors—from…
Bookish
September 27, 2017
MiscellanyPop Culture

“Access Restricted:” 1984 Meets The Handmaid’s Tale

Access Restricted (Harlequin Teen) is the gripping follow-up everyone has been anticipating from Gregory Scott Katsoulis after his original hit All Rights Reserved. Katsoulis takes us on another top-notch dystopian adventure using the same important themes of power and censorship from his first story. All Rights Reserved took us far down a topsy-turvy…
Rebecca Proulx
August 31, 2018