After this week, more relevant than ever. She even got the years mostly right it seems.
Category Archives: Arts & Literature
Banned Books Week: Effort to document and highlight support of the freedom to read
Also on NPR this morning, they realized that the book banners and burners might be a serious threat to literacy and free speech and thought in this country.
Have these folks been in a selective coma for the past decade? Three decades? More?
“Real” books
Idaho Public Library to Go Adults-Only Due to New Book Ban Law
Republicans hate reading and learning so much that they’ve made libraries an adults-only venue.
William Gibson’s Neuromancer: Does the Edge Still Bleed?
Still an entertaining story, but thankfully it was not – yet – a historical document.
Author Max Brooks on how the world of Minecraft helps prepare kids for our world
Max Brooks has spent the past few years immersing himself in Minecraft. Here’s why.
Book ban attempts on the rise in Minnesota schools
The book burners are at it again. They cannot win.
Show up and vote against them whenever you can when they run for boards. Show up and let them know they are not welcome in your schools.
One Artist’s Mission to Illustrate All the World’s Mythical Beasts
I know I am playing catch up with a lot of old links but these have been good reads for me and with the loss of my old Moveable Type tool I didn’t have much of a chance to post.
Enjoy this look at a project to put a face to names many of us know of but maybe not as much as we should.
A Bleak Read: Why Dystopian Fiction Is Popular Now – 1A
When half the world is electing destroyers and imbeciles, it is instructive the figure out what options you may have.
Both in how bad it may get as well as how you might best comport yourself.
Sinclair Lewis’ ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ becomes a bestseller after Trump’s win | Minnesota Public Radio News
I guess I had an inkling since I cracked this open awhile back.