Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR What does this perilous time of sickness and destruction inquire of us as audience and writers? A few new books highlight the power of the written phrase to foster resourceful responses to confinement and oppression — and to inspire deep alter in just us. […]
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Commentary: Parents want this book out of North Carolina high school classrooms. So I read it
A handful of angry mother and father spoke at previous week’s faculty board assembly to express their outrage around a “disgusting” book that some ninth-graders are essential to browse in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Colleges in North Carolina. Established in the 1980s, “The Female Who Fell from the Sky,” by Heidi W. Durrow, […]