Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida
Briefly

Oh, absolutely. This is not just a banned bookstore. It's not just the Florida literature store, it's a full service bookstore, right, you can come and read New York Review of Books classics, right. But we are going to emphasize and put a lot of weight behind these banned books, these LGBTQI+ books.
There are so many incredible books that have been on the banned books list. I printed out, actually, the very recent Orange County list of banned books and they have things like Paradise Lost by John Milton, which is hilarious. Even the angels don't have sex in that. They have every Toni Morrison ever done, and as you know, if you're trying to ban Toni Morrison, you're not trying to... You don't
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