Nonsenseorship


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An entertaining collection of humorous essays and poems on the topic of “nonsenseorship” (censorship) in American life circa 1920 by sixteen different authors, including Wallace Irwin, Dorothy Parker, and Frank Swinnerton.

Caution: The introduction and the poem “Bootleg” (Section 13) each contain an insulting and dehumanizing anti-black term. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann (4 hr 27 min)

Chapters

We Have With Us Today by G. P. Putnam 10:15 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Evolution-Another of Those Outlines by George S. Chappell 2:19 Read by Stacey Malcolm
Nonsenseorship by Heywood Broun 16:06
Literature and the Bastinado by Ben Hecht 23:44 Read by Donald Warren
The Woman's Place by Ruth Hale 18:08 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Owed to Volstead by Wallace Irwin 9:50 Read by Tomas Peter
The Censorship of Thought by Robert Keable 22:30 Read by Donald Warren
The Uninhibited Flapper by Helen Bullitt Lowry 22:35 Read by kathasears
The Wowzer in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien 17:13 Read by Donald Warren
Reformers: A Hymn of Hate by Dorothy Parker 5:07 Read by Winnifred Assmann
Prohibition by Frank Swinnerton 19:31 Read by Donald Warren
A Guess at Unwritten History by H. M. Tomlinson 25:54 Read by Donald Warren
In Vino Demi-Tasse by Charles Hanson Towne 17:28 Read by Beeswaxcandle
Bootleg by John V. A. Weaver 8:06 Read by Doreen Marcotte
And the Playwright by Alexander Woollcott 26:05 Read by marisad6
The Oracle That Always Says "No" by Clinton W. Gilbert 22:38 Read by Carl Thomas