Ban this column

The column reports that Texas and Florida have issued more than 11,000 book bans between them, with Florida historically outpacing Texas in past years. The writer, who edited a Texas newspaper for years, argues no one is forced to read any book they object to.

The bulk of the piece recounts

Yuri Daniel's 1963 banned novella about a fictional Soviet in which citizens are permitted to kill anyone except police, bus drivers, or children on a single day, and mostly respond by staying home. Daniel served five years of hard labor for publishing the book abroad after Soviet publishers rejected it.

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