Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth Century Dissent A Rare Books Exhibition Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah March 18 through June 17, 2022 This exhibition is free and open to the public. This exhibition was originally curated in the summer of 2020 — amid...
“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?...
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness...
“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late....
“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Lady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Florence: Privately printed, 1928 Pirated edition, ca. 1930s PR6022 A93 L2 1928 In 1928, D.H. Lawrence privately printed his eleventh novel, Lady Chatterley’s...
“--Why me? --That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? --Yes. --Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no...
Check out these readings from various members of our campus community. Each of them chose a passage from a book that has been banned or challenged....
“We prefer crude vigor to polished banality.” from Anvil, Jack Conroy, 1933 In recognition of Banned Books Week, Rare Books invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, "Radical!" - an accompaniment to our latest digital exhibition. from Songs of the Workers; On the Road, In the Jungles, and...
Banned Books Week is an annual event in September where libraries celebrate the freedom to read....
SHHHHHH! is a digital exhibition based on a physical exhibition in the Special Collections Gallery on display between September 9, 2015 and November 1, 2015. The exhibition marked Banned Books Week. Rare Books presented books, pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines that were banned, forbidden, censored, redacted, expurgated,...