Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0011816, Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:51:00 -0700

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Fwd: Marion County Board may censor Lolita
Date
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See below for recent statistic on banned books recently published
in the Washington Post.


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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:14:06 -0600
From: Steve McCann <steve2mccann@gmail.com>
Reply-To: steve.mccann@umontana.edu
Subject: Fwd: Marion County Board may censor Lolita
To:

Yet another potential censoring of Lolita, this time because of an
incident
from 1960. Says one supporter of the censorship: "whatever goes in
your head
comes out in your behavior", which is certainly an interesting
thesis ...

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/01/AR2005090101224.html>

Challenges to Library Books on the Rise
Washington Post - AP, 9/1/2005
Italie, Hillel


NEW YORK -- Attempts to have library books removed from shelves
increased by more than 20 percent in 2004 over the previous year,
according to a new survey by the American Library Association.




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Suellen Stringer-Hye
Vanderbilt University
Website:http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/libtech/stringer/
Email: suellen.stringer-hye@Vanderbilt.Edu

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