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    A new report shows how corrosive book banning is. Novelist Lauren Groff is fighting back

    by Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times Dec 14, 2023 3 minutes
    Author Lauren Groff arrives at the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction held in the Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre on June 4, 2008, in London.

    As a new report from PEN America aggregates two years of data on book bans to show how they tar specific authors with a "Scarlet Letter," Lauren Groff — author of "Florida," "Matrix" and the recent novel "The Vaster Wilds" — has just announced plans to open a bookstore selling frequently banned books in the epicenter of challenged literature.

    PEN America released its latest report on book bans Thursday morning, reflecting on the 5,894 book

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