Annie Still on My Mind: Lessons from the First Library Wars

A post by Kurt Milberger.

Figure 1. Covers of Annie on My Mind assembled by The Paris Review 

Maybe there was never a time when queer literature wouldn’t provoke controversy, but one might almost have forgiven Nancy Garden for assuming there’d be no outcry against her lesbian coming-of-age story, Annie on My Mind. She must have known some readers would object to the book and its …