Celebrity Read-Out Video Playlist
Videos featuring highly acclaimed banned/challenged authors and celebrities: Dav Pilkey, Ana Castillo, Judy Blume, Stephen Chbosky, Khaled Hosseini, Markus Zusak, Whoopi Goldberg, etc.
Advocates are sounding the alarm about a set of measures that they say target teaching and writing related to LGBTQ issues, race and freedom of speech. Around the country, efforts to ban specific books or even whole categories of books are on the rise. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation for our arts and culture series, "CANVAS."
Ray Bradbury's novel imagines a world where books are banned-and possessing, let alone reading them, is forbidden. The protagonist, Montag, is a fireman responsible for destroying what remains. The story raises the question: how can you preserve your mind in a society where free will and self-expression and curiosity are under fire? Iseult Gillespie examines what makes the dystopian novel a classic.