Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue of the magazine, “The Florida Book-of-the-Month Club,” takes aim at the latest battlefield of the culture wars: education legislation. Read a Q. & A. with the artist:
” bill, which banned the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity before fourth grade, in March of 2022; spearheading the state’s StopAct, which prohibits any education that has the potential to cause a student to feel guilty about their race or sex; and commandeering the board of trustees, and the curriculum, of Florida’s public liberal-arts college.recently, “have operated in American politics like a spooling synth loop: it keeps coming around.
What were your favorite books as a kid growing up in Montreal, and do you think any of them would be banned today? I can’t remember much of anything from my childhood . I do recall that I used to devour Hardy Boys books, but no details have stuck with me—not the characters’ names, their activities, or their affinities. I assume the stories were wholesome and bland. But perhaps a politician somewhere is deeply enraged about the boys’ engaging, plucky misadventures.
Easier for me to recall are the children’s books I read to my son when he was young. A particular favorite was a wonderful story from Quebec, “.” Charming and folksy and funny, it used the love of the sport to explore the complicated relationship between French and English Canada, a fraught topic that invites trouble for an author, yet was handled elegantly and with humor. I did hang out at the local library as a kid.
Actually, I just remembered a book I began working on several years ago that may be relevant here: I had signed a contract with a large publisher to illustrate a children’s book about the leader of the Third Reich . It was a cautionary biography about a bad man—not a joke. It would have been a very daring kids’ book to actually publish, and I got as far as submitting finished sketches before various marketing people intervened, and the project was scrapped.
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