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[Book Nerd Links] Lorraine Hansberry, Marguerite Young, The Little Prince, Banned Books

Posted on September 23, 2018 by maedez

Looking for Lorraine [THE PARIS REVIEW]
The Most Widely Unread Book Ever Acclaimed [THE PARIS REVIEW]
Gorgeous Photos of Scenes from ‘The Little Prince’–in LEGO [FLAVORWIRE]
Top Ten Most Challenged Books Lists [ALA]

A Selection of Quotes from Frequently Banned Books, Part Two

Posted on September 25, 2013 by maedez

“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”-Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence
“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”-Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
“Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.”-Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

A Selection of Quotes from Frequently Banned Books, Part One

Posted on September 24, 2013 by maedez

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”-Candide, Voltaire
“He look’d a little disorder’d, when he said this, but I did not apprehend anything from it at the time, believing as it us’d to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.”-Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
“There ain’t so sin and their ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”-The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Go and Read…

Posted on September 23, 2013 by maedez

…all the banned books you can find. It’s the only thing that will save the world.

Banned Book Trading Cards

Posted on October 10, 2012 by maedez

Banned Book Trading Cards (courtesy of Flavorwire)

Banned Books Week: This Guy is Going to Live in the Vonnegut Library for a Week. In a Cell Made of Banned Books. I’m Jealous.

Posted on September 26, 2012 by maedez

Locked up in the Vonnegut Library

R.I.P. Norman Lloyd (1914-2021)

Norman Lloyd, long a personal favorite of mine, was a fascinating man and performer. Norman Lloyd Dead [THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER]

R.I.P. Geoffrey Scott

Geoffrey Scott was from a younger generation than the performers I normally write about, but his handsome presence was ubiquitous during my 1980s childhood. From Dynasty to The Love Boat, Night Court, and Battle of the Network Stars, his charisma and acting ability lit up the small screen for decades. He will be missed. Geoffrey […]

Kirk Douglas: 1916-2020

[2019 Reel Infatuation Blogathon] But Baby Think of Me Once in Awhile: On Andy Travis as Television’s Best (and Hunkiest) Boss

Welcome to the 2019 Reel Infatuation Blogathon! Baby, If You’ve Ever Wondered: It still seems like yesterday that the idea for RI popped in my head. It was actually in December 2015, while in a hotel room getting ready for a holiday party, when it occurred to me that there was a gap in the classic […]

Announcing the 2019 Reel Infatuation Blogathon!

This is one of my favorite events of the year, and not just because I’m the co-hostess. It’s simply that good. And fun. Oh, so much fun! Here’s my original announcement. ANNOUNCING THE 2019 REEL INFATUATION BLOGATHON I hope you’ll join us!