John Warner writes: 'I would love to write about other things, but as long as these attempts at book banning keep happening, what else is more important?'
— librarians! — who committed the sin of providing books to young people who wanted them in July, I figured readers had heard enough from me on this front.
Pretty standard stuff as far as that goes, but they’ve taken the extra step of checking out all of the books they object to, including titles like “Pride Puppy!” and “Daddy and Dada,” and secreting them in the basement of the organization’s headquarters. These are not just challenges or disputes over books, but actual bans, which PEN defines as, “any action taken against a book based on its content and as a result of parent or community challenges, administrative decisions, or in response to direct or threatened action by lawmakers or other governmental officials, that leads to a previously accessible book being either completely removed from availability to students, or where access to a book is restricted or diminished.
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