Tonight on Bibliocracy, 8 PM on KPFK: BARBARA
M. JONES, on BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2013:
Celebrating the Freedom to Read. Sponsored
by the American Library Association, this annual event is a favorite of mine,
and anybody with an attitude about freedom.
Read my own enthusiastic endorsement at the OC Weekly’s “OC Bookly”
and go to the ALA ’s
terrific Office for Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek
for more information, an event organizing toolkit, other resources, lists of
frequently challenged books. Jones is the
Office’s director, and she joins me tonight to talk about the motivation, the mission
and this year’s reasons for celebrations or commemorations. She and her staff --- and hundreds of
thousands of American teachers, parents, kids and cultural workers --- will celebrate
or commemorate or agitate (or all three!) starting next week, Sunday, September
22 through 28. You can too. Sponsor an event, or just show up someplace
and read a naughty book out loud. There’s
an international dimension as well, my favorite US export to the rest of the
world. So, yes, the whole world is
listening, and reading. Thanks to you
for listening, live on the radio or online, and whenever you like as a download
from the station’s audio archives.
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