Wednesday: Contemplate bookshelves in office. “Moby Dick” encourages whale hunting, “Anna Karenina” adultery, Shakespeare teen suicide, usury and the occult. Faulkner, oy. Consider what would remain if all books containing sex, profanity, racial slurs, violence were removed from shelves. Narrow it down to “Cat in the Hat,” dictionary and Bible. Realize cat with hat encourages children to make a mess while mother is out. Discover in American Library Association Banned Books Week literature that the Bible was challenged as “obscene and pornographic” at library in Fairbanks, Alaska. Fear for future of human race.
Anna Quindlen, “Public & Private;Don’t Read This” (10/1/94, NYTimes)
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dispatches from public librarianship and beyond by Katherine Grimm Bowers
