Utah Bans Stephen King Collection from Public Schools
Article excerpt
Stephen King's 1982 collection Different Seasons (Warner) is the most recent book banned from all public schools in Utah after being removed in four school districts. Utah state law requires a book to be removed state-wide if a sufficient number of districts identify it as objective sensitive material, which is defined in state code as instructional material that constitutes pornographic or indecent material. The Davis School District website comments …Read More The post Utah Bans Stephen King Collection from Public Schools appeared first on Locus.
Stephen King’s 1982 collection Different Seasons (Warner) is the most recent book banned from all public schools in Utah after being removed in four school districts. Utah state law requires a book to be removed state-wide if a sufficient number of districts identify it as “objective sensitive material,” which is defined in state code as “instructional material that constitutes pornographic or indecent material.” The Davis School District website comments that “[t]here is sexual stimulation, arousal, and masturbation in the book.”
The collection includes four novellas: “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Hope Springs Eternal”, “Apt Pupil: Summer of Corruption”, “The Body: Fall from Innocence”, and “The Breathing Method: A Winter’s Tale”. Three of the stories were adapted to film as The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, and Apt Pupil.
According to the Utah State Board of Education website, this is the latest of 36 book bannings from Utah public schools, including five books in Sarah J. Maas’s Court of Thorns and Roses series and one book in the Throne of Glass series, George R.R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings (Voyager UK; Bantam Spectra US), and Stephen King’s Bag of Bones (Simon & Schuster).
For more information, see coverage by The Salt Lake Tribune and KPCW.
The post Utah Bans Stephen King Collection from Public Schools appeared first on Locus.