Bamboozled: This Fun & Fancy Word is more important than ever
To be tricked, fooled, or deceived. Like Tom Sawyer's fence-painting friends. But what is this Fun & Fancy Word's connection to book banning? To find out - click on the post's title.
“Anatomy of a Book Banning” by Dave Eggers
Dave 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 book banning. Be sure to give it a read - click on the post's title.
Henry James’ “The Jolly Corner” and Related Thoughts: a response to “I took the road less traveled by”
This piece from guest essayist 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 possibly have in common, you may ask. To find out- click on the post's title.
