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R. Wolf Baldassarro
Website: http://www.deepforestproductions.com
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Wolf is an American poet and columnist. When not busy pursuing the mysteries of the universe as a paranormal investigator he writes novels and maintains an active blog. Wolf has been a guest on radio, TV, and internet broadcasts, and contributed to various third-party projects. His material is featured in publications such as the Mused Literary Review, Pagan Pages magazine, and the World Education Network; he has published five books and a professional photograph gallery. For more on his work and contact information visit his official website.
Posts by R. Wolf Baldassarro
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Banned Books Awareness: “Ulysses”
The classic novel, “Ulysses,” by Irish author James Joyce, was published as a serial between 1918-1920, and then as a single volume in 1922 in France. It celebrated its 90th birthday on February...
Blog - February 20, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: “The Fat Years”
To "rush through the yellow light" is a reference to a common practice for the more daring Chinese journalists who write about sensitive topics before state officials flash the red light of censorship...
Blog - February 13, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: Revising history
Most people are familiar with the classic saying, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," uttered by George Santayana. He, himself, identified as an American and wrote exclu...
Blog - February 6, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: “Waterland”
Last week I reported that the Plymouth-Canton Schools in Michigan resolved a challenge to the book Beloved; but the same parents that objected to that title also have their torches aimed at another no...
Blog - January 30, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: “Beloved”
Students at the Plymouth-Canton Schools in Michigan got a crash course in politics this week. That’s because one family launched an official complaint on December 20, 2011 to have the fictional n...
Blog - January 22, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: “Stuck in the Middle”
The campaign against freedom doesn’t just limit itself to the literary classics of Shakespeare and Mark Twain. Works of fiction and non-fiction, both traditional and contemporary, are recurrent ...
Blog - January 16, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: “Little Women”
Post-Civil War America may be in the history books, but the ignorance and prejudice of ages past is alive and well here in the 21st century. As the Banned Books Awareness project continues, it never c...
Blog - January 8, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: Retrospective on a year’s worth of censorship
Many New Years resolutions concern ways of improving the self- smoke less, exercise more; spend less, conserve more. These are worthy goals, but always subjective in nature and often fall to the waysi...
Blog - January 2, 2012
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Banned Books Awareness: “The Hunger Games”
The Hunger Games is a Young Adult novel by Suzanne Collins that was first published in 2008; a major movie adaption is also scheduled for release in 2012. But did you know that it is the fifth most ch...
Blog - December 24, 2011
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Banned Books Awareness: “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America”
Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is one of the top ten most frequently challenged books of 2010- coming in at number 8- according to the American Library Associa...
Blog - December 20, 2011
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