September 18, 2013

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(Re)Connecting the Pop: The Hunger Games, Election 2012, Ray Bradbury, The Avengers

Revisiting some of the pop culture topics covered here over the past few months by way of sharing some related links that get at media literacy, visual literacy, and transliteracy.

Ray Bradbury, Science-Fiction Writer and Library Fan, Dies at 91

Photo: Thomas Victor

An ardent library fan, Bradbury said he wrote Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953) on a typewriter in the basement of UCLA’s Powell Library and that his original intention in writing the book was to show his great love for books and libraries. The dystopian novel, about a future society in which books are outlawed, ranked number 69 on the American Library Association’s Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009.