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Authors Stand Up for Free Speech

Bones

Authors Laurie Halse Anderson (Twisted), M.T. Anderson (Feed), Jay Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why), T.A. Barron (The Lost Years of Merlin), Dave Barry (Dave Barry’s Guide to Life), Heather Brewer (Eighth Grade Bites), Chris Crutcher (Athletic Shorts), Sarah Dessen (Just Listen), John Green (Looking for Alaska), Lev Grossman (The Magicians), Ellen Hopkins  (Crank), Anthony Horowitz (Snakehead), Maureen Johnson (The Bermudez Triangle), Nina LaCour (Hold Still), Carolyn Mackler (The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things), Lauren Myracle (ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r series), Kathy Reichs (creator of Temperance “Bones” Brennan), Meg Rosoff (There Is No Dog), Rita Williams-Garcia (Jumped), and Jacqueline Woodson (The House You Pass on the Way) remind us why freedom of speech matters to young readers.

The American Library Association maintains a list of the most frequently challenged books of the 21st century.

TVLine: Hodgins and Clark Get Medieval

Bones

While Booth is dealing with a personal crisis in this Thursday’s Bones (Fox, 9/8c), Hodgins and squintern Clark have a little too much fun trying to track down the weapon that chopped up a victim. As Hodgins reveals in the first clip here, that means raiding the Jeffersonian’s French Revolution exhibit for a guillotine! … Read the rest on TVLine

Pej Vahdat Opens “Blood and Gifts” At Lincoln Center

Bones,
Pej Vahdat in Blood and Guts cast photo
It would take a U.N. diplomat to explain the stage relationships among Jeremy Davidson, Michael Aronov, Pej Vahdat, John Procaccino and Bernard White.

On Bones, Pej Vehdat plays squintern Arastoo Varziri but on Broadway, he appears on stage in Blood and Guts, now playing at the Lincoln Center in New York.

Blood and Gifts tells the story of the secret spy war behind the official Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington D.C., Pakistan and Afghanistan, the play follows CIA operative Jim Warnock as he struggles to stop the Soviet Army’s destruction of Afghanistan and tells the story of the unknown men who shaped one of the greatest historical events in recent history.

Favorable reviews are in from Backstage.

Check out the photo gallery.

Source: Broadway.com