Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Oh, prison censors... Pablo Neruda, really?

The works of (deep breath) James Patterson, Carl Hiaasen, Hunter S Thompson, John Grisham, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Alice Walker, Pablo Neruda and Andre Gide (and others!) were all blocked in Texas prisons.

Quote of the day: "The Elements of Persuasion: Use Storytelling to Pitch Better, Sell Faster and Win More Business was rejected in December, the American Statesman reported, because censors feared it 'could be used to persuade others'."

2 comments:

  1. Hey, and it doesn't stop at books, either. Apparently, you can't play D&D in prison in Wisconsin.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27dungeons.html

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