Freedom to Read Week Hump Day. Have you bought your banned book yet? If not, may I suggest
Eight Men Speak? Written in 1933, reissued just last year by University of Ottawa Press, it's not so much a banned book as a banned play once – only once – staged as part of an effort to free Communist Party of Canada leader Tim Buck from Kingston Penitentiary. The Toronto Police didn't approve, nor did their Winnipeg brothers.
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| The Globe & Mail, May Day, 1934 |
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| The Ottawa Citizen, 2 May 1934 |
Where mail carriers once worked to prevent its spread, today's will happily deliver
Eight Men Speak to your door… er, post box.
I'd consider buying it - is it worth a read?
ReplyDeleteMost definitely worth a read, Mark. Alan Filewod's 45-page Intro and supplementary material add to it all. A bargain, as far as I'm concerned. And so damn attractive. French flaps!
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