Anonymous Patron writes “Book-banning controversy tears at souls of librarians When libraries and bookstores encourage patrons to read literature that has drawn the censors’ matchbooks, they tend to highlight classics. Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a popular ambassador for intellectual freedom. So is J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.”
But toiling for free speech doesn’t always align one with high culture. Before Madonna took to writing colorfully illustrated children’s books, she published a wildly controversial bit of erotica called “Sex” (also colorfully illustrated). It had free-speech-loving librarians “defending a book maybe even they didn’t want to defend,” says Holly Carroll, deputy director at Cleveland Public Library.”
Porno book
The book by Jenna Jamieson or however its spelled that I discussed earlier that was on the NYT best sellers list and thus a must acquire could very well be censored as far as I am concerned, however we just got it from McNaughton and it has 7 requests already. (we catalog the on order books so we can add holds before they arrive).
One man’s trash is another man’s hurricane debris…I mean treasure.