“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book,’ Wilde wrote in the introduction to The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the fact that it has survived his moral crucifixion as well as his sainthood is proof that the claim might be true. Think what we will of the man, the book is luminous, terrifying, wonderful.” Alex Miller, Jr. writes about Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, and their “trial by fiction.”
Author Sherman Alexie, recipient of the National Coalition Against Censorship 2013 Free Speech Defender Award.
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