By Mark | September 6, 2011
As you might have heard, the Republic, Missouri school board voted unanimously a few weeks ago to ban Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. The vote, according to the Christian Science Monitor, was set in motion when a complaint was filed by Republic resident Wesley Scroggins. Scroggins, whose children are home-schooled, apparently felt strongly enough […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects | Also tagged banning books, Crown Hill Cemetery, interviews with Mark, Julia Whitehead, Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, Missouri, rejection letters, Republic, Rodney Allen, Slaughterhouse Five, Teaching Teachers to Teach Vonnegut, Wesley Scroggins |
I just stumbled across yet another reason to love Baltimore. It’s called Book Thing. According to the story, the founder of Book Thing – a guy named Russell Watterberg – was a bartender in Baltimore five years ago when the idea first struck him. He was there, at the bar, talking with drinking schoolteachers about […]
