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April 2, 2012 11:42 am PDT
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Vonnegut's letter to a book-burner
In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut learned that Charles McCarthy, head of the school board that governed Drake High School in North Dakota, had burned 32 copies of Slaughterhouse-Five in the school furnace, offended by the book's "obscene language." Vonnegut wrote a private letter to McCarthy, a heartfelt, low-key, scathing recrimination that could be repurposed for any [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/99uUVfB-kXQ/vonneguts-letter-to-a-book-b.html
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