Novelist Dennis Miller was participating in a panel discussion about censorship at Mansfield University’s campus library, when he joked that his book should be banned: “It has sex, violence, and adult language.”
Library director Scott DiMarco’s response? Done and done.
Find out why a librarian committed to free speech would ban a book in DiMarco’s account of the events.
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