Featuring Georgia Court, owner of Bookstore1Sarasota, and Bryn Durgin, assistant manager & director of programming

Thirteen years ago, Georgia Court was dismayed to hear that Sarasota’s only downtown bookstore was closing. Not being able to imagine a city without such an important fixture, she opened her own! Bookstore1Sarasota was born.  

Today, the highly successful store hosts several of their own book clubs including one with an intriguing focus – banned books. This monthly gathering is “dedicated to reading and protecting the most important and threatened books of our generation.” Organizer Bryn Durgin has gathered a selection of these titles and reinforces that these books are always available for purchase, transport, and in private libraries. Generally, to ban a book today is to remove it from the shelves of an accessible public location, primarily a library.    

Nonetheless, these controversial titles can become quite popular, as demonstrated by this book club’s popularity! Come hear what interesting content your Sarasota neighbors are reading.

 

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