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A case for banning book bans

by By Darrell Ehrlick Daily Montanan
| May 31, 2024 7:00 AM

Smut and libraries may have saved my life.

As much as anyone can say for certain that a particular moment or small series of events had a profound, outsized impact on a life, I can say that books with — how to put this delicately so as not to offend the prudish sensibilities of the brigades of self-appointed citizen censors — adult-content helped change the path of my life.

For the better.

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