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Maus Sales Spike After Tennessee School Board Ban, Hakim Bishara, Hyperallergic

Sales of Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus on Amazon have soared massively since news emerged last week about its banning in Tennessee. Four editions of the acclaimed Holocaust memoir are currently among Amazon’s 18 bestselling books after a bundle of volumes from the series topped the list during the weekend.

… it might be funny if it weren’t so sad and threatening… this article does a credible job of describing what the Tennessee school board’s objections to the book and the reaction to the ban in terms of sales of the book in question and other Maus books which were written about the same subjects…

… i can’t say whether eighth graders are psychologically ready to address a graphic depiction of a dead, nude woman who has committed suicide… i suspect that with proper guidance they are, but i am not child psychology expert… as for curse words, i find it unlikely that most of the kids didn’t know the words already…

… i am reading about Classical Greece right now… it is so interesting to see that civilizations and cultures inevitably descend down the path of disintegration… book banning is an indicator of such a descent…

… we’ve been there before, we’ve come back from the brink… will we this time?…