The author and illustrator's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel account of his father's experiences as a Holocaust survivor has reportedly spiked online. International Holocaust Remembrance Day had arrived this past Thursday, but probably has a lot more to do with a vote by a recent Tennessee school board, which took the unconventional tack of celebrating the day of remembrance.
The McMinn County school board voted 0 to 10 to pull the school because of inappropriate language and a depiction of a nude woman. The response to the move and the implied belief that kids shouldn't be exposed to bleakly educational accounts of real-world genocide if it also means being exposed to naughty words has been met with a wide amount of ridicule online.
According to AP News, sales of all the editions of Maus are currently near the top of Amazon's Best Sellers in Books ranking. The news of the ban broke wide, and it was noted by AP News that Maus wasn't even in the Top 1000 of best sellers this week.
He appeared on CNN this weekend to discuss what the banning of the book could mean, and he made fun of people who commented on it.
The problem is bigger and stupider than that, and the Board is focused on bad words in the book.
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