On Wise Blood
Essay
By: Robert Giroux | January 8, 2007
As Flannery’s friend, as well as her editor and publisher from the start, I marveled at her excellence as a writer and regretted her early death. I first met… More
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"I will not ethically erase Black and LGBTQ voices." Powerful testimony from @WillieETCarver, KY teacher of the year, resigning b/c he cannot remain teaching amid the current moral panic. "School is traumatic, LGBTQ students are trying to survive it." https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/free-speech-under-attack-part-ii-curriculum-sabotage-and-classroom-censorship