It's Banned Books Week

[madrobins]

So of course Book View Cafe is celebrating. No, I'm not making a cake (although suddenly images of a Banned Books Week cake are dancing in my head...) But of course Book View Cafe is getting in on the action. You can join our crack blogging team all week as we celebrate banned books and how they’ve impacted our lives. It starts out with Sue Lange’s “Confessions of a Serial Book Banner,” and moves on to Sherwood Smith’s history of banned books, Brenda Clough’s review of banned comics, my notes on "gatekeeping", Nancy Jane Moore’s discussion of the Texas school system, Amy Sterling’s students’ favorite banned books list, Judith Tarr and Sarah Zettel talking about the Qur’an, Jerry Weinberg sharing fifty years of experience being banned, and Deborah J. Ross arguing the case for not banning offensive books such as Mein Kampf. We’ve even got Steve Gould guest blogging for us.

Bring your lighter fluid and join us!