Hello all,
The list of banned books that Judith sent to the ARLIS listserv may be
erroneously attributed to Palin, but the premise of Judith's message
appears to be true.
TIME, NY Times, several Alaska papers, and other reputable news
sources are running stories on Palin's efforts to ban books from the
Wasilia Public Library and threatening the librarian with dismissal
for her refusal to do so.
As for whether this topic is appropriate to the listserv at all,
that's another question.
Claire Dannenbaum
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Nina Kay Stephenson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From what I glean this story seems to be part fabrication and part
> exaggeration. I'm sure the facts will sort out in the next few days.
>
> Nina
>
>
>>>> rachel resnik <[log in to unmask]> 09/07/08 15:32 PM
>>>>
>
> My understanding is that a reliable list of books Palin wanted banned
> has not yet surfaced. This list below that is circulating like wildfire
> seems to be from http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html. It's a
> compendium of all books banned anywhere in the United States. Too bad.
> I'd really love to see Palin's list.
>
> Here's the debate about the list from Jessamyn West's blog:
> http://www.librarian.net/stax/2366/sarah-palin-vp-nominee/#comment-119807
>
> Rachel Resnik
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> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:49:08 -0700
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Books censored by Sarah Palin
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Was not Harry Potter series published after this "banning" occured?
> Camille Ann Brewer
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> --- On Sun, 9/7/08, Judith Hoffberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Judith Hoffberg <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Books censored by Sarah Palin
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 2:30 PM
>
>
> The following is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to get banned
> when she was mayor of Wasilla.
>
> This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla
> Library Board.
> When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her
> fired.
>
> A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
> A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
> Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
> As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
> Blubber by Judy Blume
> Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
> Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
> Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
> Carrie by Stephen King
> Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
> Christine by Stephen
> King
> Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
> Cujo by Stephen King
> Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
> Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
> Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
> Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
> Decameron by Boccaccio
> East of Eden by John Steinbeck
> Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
> Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
> Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
> Forever by Judy Blume
> Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
> Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
> Have to Go by Robert Munsch
> Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
> How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
> Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya
> Angelou
> Impressions edited by Jack Booth
> In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
> It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
> James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
> Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
> Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
> Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
> Lord of the Flies by William Golding
> Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
> Lysistrata by Aristophanes
> More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
> My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
> My House by Nikki Giovanni
> My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
> Night Chills by Dean Koontz
> Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
> On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
> One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
> One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
> One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
> Ordinary People by Judith Guest
> Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston
> Women's Health Collective
> Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
> Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
> Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
> Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schw
> artz
> Separate Peace by John Knowles
> Silas Marner by George EThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
> The Bastard by John Jakes
> The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
> The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
> The Color Purple by Alice Walker
> The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
> The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
> The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
> The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
> The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
> The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
> The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
> The Living Bible by William C. Bower
> The
> Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
> The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
> The Pigman by Paul Zindel
> The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
> The Shining by Stephen King
> The Witches by Roald Dahl
> The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
> Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
> To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
> Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
> Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
> Editorial Staff
> Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween
> Symbols by Edna Barth
>
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