Just One Book for This One City?

NewsDay has a Column that talks about the big problems they\’ve had in NYC trying to pick one book.


First it was to be a paperback fiction book with a living author that a large number of people would find interesting, then a book that children could read, people wanted to exclude potentially offensive titles, The bickering got so bad that at one point somebody said, \”The next thing you know they\’ll have us all eating Chicken McNuggets,.\”

\”Too many cook spoiled the broth,\” Susan Avery, the owner of Ariel Booksellers in New Paltz, said. \”You had too many political agendas, and the soup got spoiled.\”