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Sep 22, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Since I’ve been discussing school shootings, here is a real experience I had in 2007 when 19 Minutes was published. A handful of schools were given class sets of 100 copies of the book. Guilford HS in NH was one. The entire student body read the book as curriculum.
I was asked to come speak. I did, talking about the research I’d done with school shooters in prison and survivors of shootings. Then the principal opened the floor to questions. One boy stood up and said, “I don’t really have a question…”
Oct 13, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
My friend @getnicced’s incredible book DEAR MARTIN was banned this week. As someone who has written multiple banned books, let me say some things.