10/02/2023
BANNED BOOKS WEEK:
Monday, Oct 2
From the AALA, my literary agents trade association:
Banned Books Week falls at a particularly critical point in our time, following a year when American Library Association (ALA) documented 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources—the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago.
Most of the record 2,571 unique titles targeted for censorship were by or about LBGTQIA+ persons and Black, Indigenous and people of color.
Maia Kobabe is the author of Gender Q***r: a Memoir, the most banned book in America. Kobabe writes:
“Those most marginalized readers are being further marginalized, and their access is the access that has been limited the most, and I just don’t know that the people who are banning books, care about that — I wish they did.”
The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released preliminary data documenting a continued uptick in attempts to censor books, materials, and services across public, school, and academic libraries in the United States during the first eight months of 2023. Read th...
