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Frances Peck

Freedom to Read, Willingness to Edit

February 26, 2019 by Frances Peck | 13 Comments on Freedom to Read, Willingness to Edit

Good stories, for me, have never been treacly. My father, an RCMP officer, put people in jail; my mother, a halfway house director, put them back into society. My childhood was one of sensational publications and limited adult supervision. By age 11 I’d read Jaws, Helter Skelter and The Eden Express, a memoir of schizophrenia. […]

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A striking black and white image of an older man with glasses perched on his nose, side lit and wearing a plaid jacket or housecoat, who is holding what looks like an old book and reading.
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Debra Huron

Freedom to Read, at All

February 28, 2013 by Debra Huron | Leave a Comment

Although larger social issues are on the periphery of what we do as editors and writers, they sometimes grab my attention by speaking to questions of equity and human rights regarding the written word. Here’s how this is resonating with me this week. During the week of February 24 as Canada celebrates Freedom to Read Week, […]

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A text-only image, which is a definition by Ambrose Bierce, from his acerbic book, The Devil’s Dictonary. The definition reads: “Defame, verb transitive. To lie about another. To tell the truth about another.” In the red and black background, a dictionary excerpt of the word “justice” fades in at bottom.
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R. Franklin Carter

Know Your Legal Limits

February 26, 2013 by R. Franklin Carter | 3 Comments on Know Your Legal Limits

Let’s begin by sketching a fictional but plausible scenario. Dan Ascot is a librarian who works at the University of Western Nebraska. One day, in 2009, he posts a few remarks about a publisher on his blog. He says that Knightsbridge Press, a publisher of scholarly books in Massachusetts, produces “over-priced works of dubious scholarship.” […]

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