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October 18, 2011 12:47 pm PDT
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Bukowski's letter to a library that banned his books
In 1985, a library in Holland banned one of Charles Bukowski's books: Tales of Ordinary Madness. The library officials said the work was "very sadistic, occasionally fascist and discriminatory against certain groups (including homosexuals)." Bukowski responded with this brilliant letter, featured today on Letters of Note: In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/y0p60oKVvXc/bukowskis-letter-to-a-library-that-banned-his-books.html
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