Explicit, offensive, irresistible: reflections on banned books

Farrel, Peter

Abstract

The writer discusses Banned Books Week and his personal experience with censorship, and includes commentary on how banning books often has the opposite effect: it merely makes them more popular.

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Resource type
- Intellectual Freedom News
Collections
- Intellectual Freedom Issues in Oregon: A News Database
Photo description
- Cover art for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Photo caption
- Mark Twain, J.D. Salinger, and J.K. Rowling are just three authors whose books battled bans before being accepted into the canon of young adult fiction.
Location
- Cannon Beach, Oregon
Source
- Cannon Beach Gazette
Is part of
- Intellectual Freedom Issues in Oregon: A News Database
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