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Shelley Blanton-Stroud consults with employers to improve their workplace writing and editing. She has taught college writing classes for twenty years and has lead community book clubs for a decade. Contact her here.

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Book clubs are talking about author John Irving: "some mistakes can never be redeemed"

When National Book Award-winning author of Last Night at Twisted River, John Irving, spoke at Sacramento’s Crest Theater last night at a...
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Books and libraries, who will use them?

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Who reads anymore? More specifically, who reads books? And most specifically, who reads books they find in libraries? In the Chronicle of Higher...
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Book club 101: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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When I joined my son’s high school banned book club in reading Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I was literally sickened by...
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Book club 101: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a banned book

My son’s banned books club responded in a heartfelt and personal way to reading Tim O'Brien's “fictional” book about the...
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Book club 101: why to make a banned books club for high school readers

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The summer before starting high school in 2003, my son and two of his friends, let's call them Theo, Grace and Maggie, got a little self-conscious...
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Book club 101: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, a banned book

J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye was the first book my son's Banned Books Club read, an excellent book that initiated four summers of reading...
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