In non-Hillary news, โAmericans Canโt Stand To Read About Gay Penguinsโ:
NEW YORKโA childrenโs story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of library books the American public objects to the most. And Tango Makes Three, released in 2005 and co-written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, was the most โchallengedโ book in U.S. public schools and libraries for the second straight year, according to the American Library Association.
I didnโt know the ALA observed Straight Year. Guess I missed the first one. Anyway, this is a sad list in at least one respect:
The ALA defines a โchallengeโ as a โformal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.โ
Other books on the top 10 list include Maya Angelouโs memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in which the author writes of being raped as a young girl; Mark Twainโs The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, long attacked for alleged racism; and Philip Pullmanโs The Golden Compassโฆ
Iโd suggest someone rewrites Huck as an interracial gay romance, but itโs probably already been done.
[UPDATE: Yes, it has. โCome Back To The Raft Again, Huck, Honeyโ โ Leslie Fiedler in Partisan Review, 1948]






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