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Mark Santangelo's avatar

Thanks for talking up Lawn Boy - I think it's a terrific disquisition on class, and really well-written. It pains me terribly that Evison has been swept up in the whole book-banning frenzy of our times (and the book banniscts don't seem to have even read the whole book, just one scene, which they've largely misunderstood, or maybe that should read "willfully" misunderstood). I read it as a shared reading with a high school student the year after it came out and it led to a very strong one-on-one discussion - and we were both stunned when it suddenly became a cause celebre for all the wrong reasons a year or so later.

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Jon's avatar

This is great, really love the part about the rejection letters, made me feel somehow inspired. Great post, thanks you.

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