Luke’s Reviews > A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature > Status Update

"I see no reason why the nations should sit in darkness because Anthony Comstock was horrified at the signt of his grandparents in copulation."

—Ezra Pound to James Joyce regarding Margeret C. Anderson serializing Ulysses in The Little Review. This is the first time the work would appear in print.

Oh come on Morgan, spare me this "narcissistic psychopath" horseshit, I'm trying to give you a fair shot.

'One suburb of Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, did not repeal its law banning people from "appear[ing] in any [public] place in a dress not belonging to his sex" until 2021.'

Given the times, I have to wonder whether that law's back on the books.

As a child, [Clara] Laughlin would play with her father's octavo volumes of Shakespeare, "without protest from him even when I marked them up with irrelevant pencilings." She remembered him telling her mother, "I'd rather she ruined them than that they should be put away on the shelf out of her reach."