There is continued controversy over public libraries banning Fifty Shades of Grey. On Bloomsday, Danielle Sigler at the Ransom Center library in Texas looks back at another book that was censored on the charge of obscenity—James Joyce’s Ulysses. Plus, librarians who hated Ulysses—letters from the Ransom Center archives.
Eighty years ago, before Fifty Shades of Grey was even a twinkle in E.L. James’s eye, librarians across the country were asked how they might respond to another controversial book if it became available in a reasonably priced edition.
