Art Spiegelman, the lauded creator of the Pulitzer-winning Holocaust memoir “Maus,” shares why illustrated books are such a target for removals.
“Schools are the major socializing agent of the country,” Art Spiegelman said pointedly one recent evening across the river from Washington — which is why he’s so concerned about how they’ve become battlegrounds over books.the first graphic novel ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, had just spoken to high school students, then at a community event at a middle school hosted by the Arlington Public Library in Virginia, all ahead of Banned Books Week.
A day earlier, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom had shared its results so far for 2023: Across school and public libraries, the number of titles challenged was up 20 percent over the same time period a year earlier. Analyses by the ALA and The Washington Post note many challenges were to
I sat with Spiegelman over dinner and a post-event interview to glean his insights on the state of the cultural wars over reading, especially among the young.
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