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Every year a variety of groups, including the American Library Association and the ACLU, take a week to celebrate the freedom to read without censorship. The "banned" in the name refers to the hundreds of books that have been challenged and/or withdrawn from schools, public libraries, and bookstores. Banned Books Week this year runs Sept. 25-Oct. 2.
What: Philadelphia Chapter Banned Books Reading
Join some of Philadelphia's celebrities as they read selections from their favorite banned or challenged books!
Where: Philadelphia Free Library, Central Branch, Auditorium, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia
When: Wednesday, September 29, 7:30 pm
Readers:
- Greg Frost, author
- Merrie Jones, author
- Louis Massiah, executive director, Scribe Video Center
- Susana Mayer, Erotic Literary Salon
- Edward Pettit, Edgar Allan Poe impersonator
- Wesley Stace, author (a.k.a. singer John Wesley Harding)
- Dennis Tafoya, author
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored with the Philadelphia Free Library.
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