Latest innovative pro se pleading
- Motion requesting “you all go fuck yourselves“
Nonbookish Linkage
- “Cancel culture” is an empty vessel
- Skepticism as a way of life
- An interesting look at the makeup of QAnon believers (I repeat: our country is full of idjits)
- The impossibility of history
- Portugal has an Anchor Cemetery
- And did you know there’s a Sideshow Hall of Fame?
Bookish Linkage
- The country’s 10 most challenged books of 2021
- Russian books that outlived Soviet censors
- When California banned The Grapes of Wrath
- Is the long-defunct Waldenbooks inspiring a revival of mall bookstores?
- See why all the books in a British library were checked out
- Elimination of late fees brings NYPL 90,000 items
- Romance novelist who wrote essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” is now on trial for murdering her husband
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind
