Banned Books Archives — Planet Word Museum The museum where language comes to life Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:08:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://planetwordmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-PW_Logo_BLUE_circle-2-1-32x32.png Banned Books Archives — Planet Word Museum 32 32 Banned Books Week at Planet Word https://planetwordmuseum.org/banned-books-week-at-planet-word/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:00:09 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=8866 This week, visitors to Planet Word will confront an unusual sight in the Library: books wrapped in paper, their covers obscured, the word “BANNED” stamped across them. Banned Books Week…

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]]> Prison Reading https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-prison-reading/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:27:15 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=6354 So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…

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]]> Banned Books, Again https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-banned-books-again/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 18:50:43 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=4648 Planet Word is located in the DMV — that’s the junction of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia — so we need to track what’s happening around us in…

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]]> Banned Books https://planetwordmuseum.org/from-the-founder-banned-books/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:49:01 +0000 https://planetwordmuseum.org/?p=4487 If you’ve been following the “word news” lately, you’ll know that the big issue of the last few weeks has been book banning. Wait a minute, you might be excused…

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