2 Book Controversies
May 8th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
Some say books are doomed to disappear in an era of new media, but one way they can tread water for the time being is by keeping themselves in the news through controversies.
AFP reports on the Turin book fair, which “honours Israel on the 60th anniversary of the Jewish state’s creation.” Tariq Ramadan is criticizing Italian President Giorgio Napolitano’s scheduled appearance on the grounds that it will make the fair “a political and not a cultural event.”
Meanwhile, AP reveals that the most shunned book in libraries is not gory or satanic, or even sexually explicit. Instead, it’s Justin Richardson’s and Peter Parnell’s “And Tango Makes Three” (2005), a tale of a penguin brought up by (gasp!) two dads.