Banned Books Week

Posted to the Banned Books Week Facebook page

We're halfway through Banned Books Week! Welcome to our thousands of new fans. Have you had a chance to check out our "mapping censorship" Google map, where
you can see where and why many of the book challenges took place in the past few years. (Note: the
ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom records many more challenges than this every year - the ones on the map have received media attention.)
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/mappingcensorship
Mapping Censorship | Banned Books Week
bannedbooksweek.org
There are hundreds of challenges to books in schools and libraries in the United States every year. According to the American Library Association (ALA),
there were at least 348 in 2010; the ALA estimates that 70 to 80 percent are never reported.

Review of _EVENING’S EMPIRE A history of the night in early modern Europe_

Kes: this is definitely going on my Amazon books wishlist, and I love the Donne quote
Craig Koslofsky
EVENING’S EMPIRE
A history of the night in early modern Europe
433pp. Cambridge University Press. £55; paperback, £18.99 (US $90; paperback, $29.99).
978 0 521 89643 6
Published: 21 September 2011
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article780998.ece

MIT-Cornell fictional alumni face-off

It's Ling Woo from Allie McBeel
vs.
Lex Luthor
http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/2011/09/26/vote-mit-cornell-fictional-alumni-face-off/?tr=y&auid=9575939
--original and witty responses count toward tipping the balance