Okay, Pat Conroy is not a chick and his books aren't chick lit (although The Prince of Tides was made into a very emotional film with Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand), but his reaction to book banning at a West Virginia High School was just too good not to reproduce.
I'm sure Maureen Johnson, no stranger to book-banning insanity, will be proud.
In response to the school board that stopped students at Nitro High Schol from discussing The Prince of Tides and Beach Music in class, Conroy said: "Because you banned my books, every kid in that county will read them, every single one of them. Because book banners are invariably idiots, they don't know how the world works - but writers and English teachers do."
Go Pat!
[Via Galleycat]
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