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In Banned Book Week event, Vermont authors gather

Source: The Boston Globe
Norwich : United Kingdom | about 1 month ago  
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Vt.— It's Banned Books Week, and a group of authors in Vermont are marking it by reading live passages from often-banned books or those written by authors who've faced censorship. Thirteen writers -- including David Macaulay, Ron Powers and Tom Bodett -- gathered Wednesday night in Norwich to read...
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