Coming Soon – the WORD Basketball League!
WORD Books in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is setting up a summer basketball league for book lovers. The league will welcome men and women and will likely play its games on the playground courts across the street from the store.
To prove their league-readiness, applicants need not demonstrate their shooting or dribbling skills – instead, book-loving hoopster-hopefuls need to answer the following five questions:
1. Who wrote Ulysses?
2. What is the best selling book of all time?
3. What is J. D. Salinger’s most well-known book?
4. Name a book that has been banned in the United States in the last 100 years.
5. What is your favorite book?
Those who don’t score well (on the test) are invited to cheerlead.
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So, Jerry, what book has been banned in the US for 100 years?
Hi Gigi – The question isn’t seeking a book banned FOR 100 years but DURING the past 100 years. HOWL, by Allen Ginsberg, immediately comes to mind.