I'm so sick of hearing about this book it isn't even funny.
They are! None of her books have been banned — as in made illegal to sell. 99.9% of the “banned book” b.s. is about a book being removed from a some local school library — because of parental objections, new acquisitions, age restrictions, etc. People *want* there to be censorship so they can demonstrate their transgression and courage in protesting a straw man problem. The fact that book store chains market “banned books” gives the game away. It’s all marketing. A century ago, one of the best things that could happen to your book was for it to be banned in Boston (they really banned books there) because it made the book cool and subversive everywhere else. This all a con.
Frankly, what Goldberg notes on The Handmaid's Tale is true of a lot of "banned books". They aren't banned, it's what Goldberg describes. Some of the "bans" are simply books being moved from one section of the library to another.
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