I've been interested in the concept of book burning and banning for some time. I continue to find it shocking and disheartening that people remain so ignorant that they want to keep others from reading and learning. You may expect such behavior from totalitarian governments, but not in the US. Yet, it goes on here. In fact, there are several thousand book challenges in our country every year according to the American Library Association. To bring awareness and address my own curiosity, there's a new weekly feature in the Fabulist Flash, Banned Books. Each week a banned book will be highlighted.

 

Hope you’re writing up a storm!

January 10, 2008

Gregory A. Kompes, Editor

ISSUE #160