book bans

The fireproof book is a joint project that includes author Margaret Atwood, who in a video demonstrated its effectiveness. Here’s how and why the book was made.

Book banning is far from a new phenomenon, but incidents have been on the rise across the country the past two years. As Nora Pelizzari of the National Coalition Against Censorship points out, “Everybody is guilty at some point of trying to control the information that other people have access to.”