The Best Way Books
Numbers 2, 3 & 4
Someone I know is making moves.
Article about a literature censorship board formed in 1953 in the US - The Georgia Literature Commission -
"Thus, with God and a pure, unyielding ignorance on his side, Wesberry developed an eight-question checklist with which to gauge literature for obscenity: 1. What is the general and dominant theme? 2. What degree of sincerity of purpose is evident? 3. What is the literary or scientific worth? 4. What channels of distribution are employed? 5. What are contemporary attitudes of reasonable men toward such matters? 6. What types of readers may reasonably be expected to peruse the publication? 7. Is there evidence of pornographic intent? 8. What impression will be created in the mind of the reader, upon reading the work as a whole?”
Catcher in the Rye did not pass through this test.
||October BPC: Just One More Page|| 21. Stories. I own, like, three short story collections at this point. They’re all very photogenic, but it’s been a while since I’ve taken any pictures of this one. Also, birds.
FiLBooks in Istanbul, Turkey
This was a good response to the “80 books every man should read” that Esquire put out last year… Literary Hub was a new find by me on facebook and I’ve really enjoyed the articles I’ve read from them so far!!
Drain all of my blood and refill my veins with only this video
Reading. Reading about reading. Reading about reading about reading.
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