Dear Arlisans,

 In honor of Banned Books Week, I will be re-airing an interview I conducted with our colleague Larry McGilvery in April of 2013 about his 1962 trial in which he was prosecuted for selling a copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.   It is a Twainesque story of epic proportions, rife with humor, and, for reasons that become clear in the telling, "the most remarkable censorship case that has ever been tried."  And it has a happy ending.  You can listen to the broadcast over the web on Wednesday, April 24 at noon EDT by clicking the "Listen Live" link under the radio on the righthand side of the site (http://library-cafe.org), or if you can't make the time, access a slightly longer version of the recorded interview at: http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/wvkr/audio/McGilvery.mp3.   


The Library Cafe


Laurence McGilvery

Posted: 22 Sep 2014 02:11 PM PDT

September 24, 2014. SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR BANNED BOOKS WEEK :

La Jolla Bookseller Laurence McGilvery talks about his role in one of the Twentieth Century's most important literary censorship battles, the attempt on the part of a coalition of conservative groups to censor Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and McGilvery's own arrest and trial (People v. McGilvery, No. M-11466 San Diego Municipal Court, 1962) for selling a copy of the novel to an undercover San Diego police officer. His acquittal preceded the U.S. Supreme court decision (Grove Press vs. Gerstein, 1964) that effectively put an end to the censorship of literary works on obscenity grounds.

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On view through December, 2014:
Tongues in Trees: Xylography and the Uses of Adversity


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