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Lydia Kiesling on Blume’s Banned Book

By posted at 11:00 am on September 12, 2012 1

Writing for Banned Books Month on the PEN American Center’s blog, our own Lydia Kiesling discusses Judy Blume’s Forever. It’s a book many have “lobbied vigorously to pry … out of the hands of enthralled youth since 1975,” Kiesling writes, which should prove that such lobbyists “weren’t very good readers” in the first place.

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One Response to “Lydia Kiesling on Blume’s Banned Book”

  1. Joe
    at 10:39 pm on September 12, 2012

    Very strange…A writer at the AV Club wrote about this same book on the same day…

    http://www.avclub.com/articles/judy-blumes-forever-taught-70s-teens-about-sex-and,84696/

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