![]() ![]() ![]() The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom reported 273 challenges in 2020: Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. Reasons: Banned, challenged, relocated, and restricted for providing sexual education and LGBTQIA+ content. ![]() Reasons:Banned and challenged because it depicts child sexual abuse and was considered sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and degrading to women Me and Earl and the Dying Girl- Jesse Andrews.Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references and use of a derogatory term The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Sherman Alexie.Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom reported 273 challenges in 2021: ![]()
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In “Either/Or,” whose title nods to the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s treatise on the aesthetic versus the ethical life, Selin decides to opt for the former and become the writer she has longed to be since childhood. ![]() Hence the title, “The Idiot,” a reference to Fyodor Dostoevsky and the generally clueless behavior of young people everywhere. Selin, the overachieving daughter of Turkish immigrants and Batuman’s alter ego, spent much of that book mooning over Ivan, an older, emotionally unavailable boy in her Russian class. “Either/Or,” by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press)ĭo you remember what it felt like to be a college sophomore? The Jell-O shots, cookie dough and moments of abject humiliation and terror as you tried, oh so self-importantly, to figure out how to live?Įlif Batuman brings back the tedium and exhilaration of undergraduate life in “Either/Or,” a charming, mordantly funny follow-up to her first novel, “The Idiot,” which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. This cover image released by Penguin Press shows "Either/Or" by Elif Batuman. ![]() ![]() ![]() These games, though seemingly childish and silly to his guardians at the time, provided a platform through which Rowe honed his storytelling abilities. He also participated in many a live-action RPG. The author’s writing habit drew him further into the RPG arena.Īs a Middle School kid, Andrew Rowe helped his friends run Dungeons and Dragons Campaigns. And it wasn’t long after that Rowe began writing his own stories. It was around that time that the author was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons. ![]() The desire to explore fantasy struck him in elementary school when he came across the ‘Dragonlance’ novels by Weis and Hickman. The author has had the opportunity to work with companies like Blizzard Entertainment, and his writing career has grown in tandem with his profession as a game designer.Īndrew Rowe has been writing and telling stories since he was a child. 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Professor Ford was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University. He was a founding editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and was editor, with Sylvere Monod, of the Norton Critical Edition of Hard Times. Lawrence, and The Making of a Secret Agent. He was the author of Keats and the Victorians, Dickens and His Readers, Double Measure: A Study of the Novels and Stories of D. Gilmore Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Rochester. His many works include the classics The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers and many more. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most acclaimed and popular writers of all time. ![]() |