Associated Press - The Atlantic Wire
Sept 24, 2013
Ban or no ban, high school students in Randolph County, North Carolina, will have easy access to Invisible Man. Thanks to a former resident, the novel's publishers will be giving away copies for free.After the county's board of education banned Ralph Ellison's 1952 classic on black identity from school libraries, former Randolf County resident — and current New York-based Poets & Writers editor — Evan Smith Rakoff arranged for Vintage Books to donate copies of the novel, which local high schoolers can pick up for free starting September 25.
Rakoff, a culture and literature journalist based in New York, said he was "deeply ashamed" when he heard about the ban. "I follow news really closely and I often encounter these kinds of stories," he told The Atlantic Wire. But in this case he found the news on Facebook, where an old classmate had linked to the news reported by the local Courier-Tribune.
"This saddens me beyond measure. All should be ashamed," Rakoff tweeted on September 18. The next day Laura Miller of Salon suggested organizing a giveaway at an indie bookstore. "All we had to do was ask and Vintage Books was eager to help," said Miller of the novel's publishers.
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