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Many books challenged, banned for sexual content
While the "50 Shades" trilogy is the most recent bestseller to be challenged or denied by institutions like the Harford County Public Library for being "pornography," it is far from the only one. Many top-selling books have been censored or challenged...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Gossip Girl (tv program), New York City, Literature, Maya Angelou
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Friends School of Baltimore
Alicia Allen, Anna Austin; Elizabeth Banta, Caroline Bogrov, Rachel Bolan, Chandler Bordick, Eric Brooks; Walker Cammack, Emily Canner, Arlen Caplan, Arnold Capute, Benjamin Chew, Paul Clark, Aislinn Cook, Ella Cooper; Julia Dagnello, George Dendrinos,...
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Hey Ravens fans! Readings for Purple Friday
As the Baltimore Ravens get ready for this weekend's game, folks are geared up for a special playoff edition of Purple Friday, with colorful sweatshirts, caps, shirts, sweaters, etc. For the bookish, here are some favorite purple titles, to get in the...Tags: Zane Grey, Abusive Behavior, Tom Wolfe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Toni Morrison
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Reggie Watts brings wooly show to the Mammoth
Reggie Watts' story is much like that of any other comic: He was a class clown, always goofing off and playing jokes on everybody, much to the consternation of his teachers.
But during his youth in Great Falls, Mont., he also was in the school...Tags: PBS (tv network), Punk (genre), Conan O'Brien, African Americans, HBO (tv network)
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Lewis Museum marks sixth year with free events
The story goes that Reginald F. Lewis, the remarkably successful Baltimore-born lawyer, businessman and philanthropist, learned the value of saving money from his grandmother. She gave him a tin cup to hold his earnings from delivering papers when he...Tags: African Americans, Pratt Street, Minority Groups, Maryland, History (tv network)
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At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers
Sun StaffAuthor Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...Tags: African Americans, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ghana, Toni Morrison, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey)
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'Jitney': Vehicle for a friendship
Sun Theater CriticThe friendship between playwright August Wilson and director Marion McClinton began two decades ago when they both lived in St. Paul, Minn. Since then, Wilson has won two Pulitzer Prizes (for "Fences'' and "The Piano Lesson''), and McClinton has acted...Tags: August Wilson, African Americans, Death, Minority Groups, Poetry
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Alice Walker scuttles new Israeli edition of 'The Color Purple'
World NowAuthor Alice Walker has refused to allow an Israeli company to publish a new Hebrew edition of her classic novel The Color Purple, arguing that “Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people.”... -
Alice Walker says no to Israeli edition of 'The Color Purple'
Jacket CopyIn a protest of Israeli policies, Alice Walker has declined to publish an edition of her prizewinning novel "The Color Purple" in that country.... -
Unclassified Info: Thanks for taking part in the debate
What do I have in common with a growing list of authors that include Salman Rushdie, Lemony Snicket, Gloria Steinem and Alice Walker? If you said we’re regulars at Mario’s deli, you’d be wrong. Except in my case, where you would have...Tags: Media Industry, White House, Salman Rushdie, Federal Reserve, Gloria Steinem
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Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82. The cause was...Tags: Henrik Ibsen, W.H. Auden, Harvard University, Teachers, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist
Jacket CopyMichael Chabon's choice of the independent Open Road Media for e-book editions of Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys includes a frank -- if not comprehensive -- discussion of royalty rates for authors....
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