Bamboozled: This Fun & Fancy Word is more important than ever
B amboozled! It means to be hoodwinked, flimflammed, hornswoggled -- all fun & fancy words that mean to be tricked, deceived in underhanded ways. Like the way Tom Sawyer bamboozled his friends into whitewashing that fence for him, so he could play all day. But, what is this Fun & Fancy Word's connection to book banning? We may see... Read More.
“Anatomy of a Book Banning” by Dave Eggers
D ave Eggers' book The Circle was not only pulled from high school reading lists in Rapid City, South Dakota, it was on a list with several other books school officials decided should be destroyed. Yes, destroyed. Eggers graciously gave This Book is Banned permission to publish a link to the following article he wrote about his experience with... Read More.
Henry James’ “The Jolly Corner” and Related Thoughts: a response to “I took the road less traveled by”
T his piece from guest essayist Dr. Allen Schwab reflects thoughts and memories evoked by our previous post I Took the Road Less Traveled By. . Schwab considers parallel themes in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," and Henry James' short story "The Jolly Corner," topped off with a dash of Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar." What can these works... Read More.
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