May 15, 2026
Author Stephen King likes to listen to the same song on repeat while writing. While working on his book 11/22/1963, he listened to Lou Bega’s 1999 smash hit “Mambo No. 5” so many times that his wife threatened to divorce him. King must have realized he needed a little bit of Tabitha in his life, as the couple are still married.
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11 Banned Books Through Time
There are plenty of reasons why a book might be banned. It may subvert a popular belief of a dominating culture, shock an audience with grotesque, sexual, or obscene language, or be thought to promote strife within a society. Whatever the reason, once a book is banned, a sort of aura of mystique is
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