Tom Lynch

The annual festival of banned and challenged literature hits Chicago for the twenty-second time this week, to bring light to the bizarre and shortsighted requests the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom receives asking to pull works like "A Raisin in the Sun" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" from libraries and schools. The Newberry Library presents bestselling author Sara Paretsky, "Sylvia" comic creator Nicole Hollander, author and professional-ghost-hunter Richard Crowe and poet Haki Madhubuti--each will read from their favorite "banned" book. Plus, the read-out features an open mic for audience members to defend and share their preferred pieces of blacklisted lit. And, in addition to the reading and the open free-for-all, the ALA President delivers a lecture entitled "Libraries and Free Speech," at 11am. So get yourself out there and support our right to read and write.

The Banned Books Read-Out is held on October 2 in Washington Square Park, 901 North Clark, at 12:30pm. Free.

(2004-09-29)

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