Twitter: Banned Books' New Best Friend
It's Banned Books Week, and for an event like this, it never hurts to have a cause celebre. This year, organizers had only to turn to Twitter, where people have been rallying behind the young-adult author Laurie Halse Anderson, whose novel "Speak" has found itself at the center of a heated censorship debate.
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 28 September, 2010
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