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Say Goodbye to John Steinbeck
FREEDOM TO READ WEEK: (Feb. 23 to March 1) Say Goodbye to John Steinbeck? Back in the day, when I was writing songs and fronting a band (Ken McGoogan & the Immoral Minority), an elected government official began lobbying to ban Of Mice and Men from schools. He stood up in the legislature and brandished…
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Say goodbye to John Steinbeck“An unfortunately timeless classic . . . When a politician tried to ban a book in Alberta, Ken McGoogan wrote a protest song. It’s a tune that still needs singing today” That was the headline at the Globe and Mail Books website, where editor Peter Scowen posted and introduced Say Goodbye…
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On Feb. 27, during Freedom to Read Week, I’ll be part of Closer to the Land: Freedom of Expression and the Environment, an extravaganza slated for the Toronto Reference Library. I won’t bring my guitar that night, but to mark the occasion, I’ve ransacked the musical archive and voila: Say Goodbye to John Steinbeck. I…
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