This event is part of the Big Read celebration featuring Fahrenheit 451 and will feature David Kipen, Literature Director with the National Endowment for the Arts and community leaders reading the names and brief excerpts from the American Library Association's list of Banned Books while burning the mock novel.
For more information on this event, please contact Kelli Johnson.
The Big Read 2008: Fahrenheit 451 will take place from September 21 - October 31. A full schedule of events is available on line at www.MyLibrary.us.
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museums and Library Science and Arts Midwest.
Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite novels, for many reasons, but I'm not sure yet how I feel about a "mock" book burning even as part of banned books event .... how about you?
If you want to read a real treasure of book about book burning gone wild, try Out of the Flames by Lawrence and Nacy Goldstone, one of the best books that I've read in the last year
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