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The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was not obliged to reveal its reason but it is believed that it was rejected for its critique of Irish republicanism and the Catholic Church, and its depiction of adolescent sexuality. [16] The Country Girls: Edna O'Brien: 1960 Novel Banned by Ireland's censorship board in 1960 for its explicit sexual ...
Publishers, authors fight against book censorship. Book banning has united some of the largest publishing houses in the U.S. In August, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, ...
Story at a glance More than 1,600 individual book titles have been banned from school classrooms or libraries over the past year, according to PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for freedom ...
Herbert Foerstel, the author of Banned in the U.S.A., a book documenting the cases of censorship in the United States, states that "the censors claim to be protecting the young and impressionable from this tragic tale of crude heroes speaking vulgar language within a setting that implies criticism of our social system."
Author's public statements, and because of claims that the book contains “selective storytelling incidents” and does not encompass racism against all people. [10] 2020 — — — Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes: Chris Crutcher: Obscene language, sexual content 1993 — 85 — A Stolen Life: A Memoir: Jaycee Dugard
A collection of poker stories. Author is believed to be another pseudonym of S. W. Erdnase. [6] The Autobiography of a Flea, erotic novel published in 1901. The Expert at the Card Table by S. W. Erdnase, a book on sleight-of-hand with cards for card advantage play and magic, self-published in 1902 in Chicago.
Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book. Censorship is "the regulation of free speech and other forms of entrenched authority". [ 1 ]
Reacting on Twitter, the Satanic Verses author wrote on Saturday (18 February): “Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.”