The McMinn Maus Trial

Banning books — the American Dream

Terry Barr

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My autographed copy of Maus (Author’s photo)

Once a Tennessean, always a Tennessean I suppose. I’m sure that almost 100 years later, plenty of the state’s citizens still argue that teaching Evolution in schools is equal to allowing Satan to date your son or daughter. And now they get to be joined by those who utter these sentiments:

“[Maus] shows people hanging, it shows them killing…

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Terry Barr

I write about music, culture, equality, and my Alabama past in The Riff, The Memoirist, Prism and Pen, Counter Arts, and am an editor for Plethora of Pop.