Maus. If you are unfamiliar, it's considered the first comic novel. It's by Art Spiegelman and is about the Holocaust. It has been banned in many countries, has been burned, hated, misunderstood, and of course it's written by one of those clever Jews. cnn.com/2022/01/27/us/tennes…

Tennessee just pulled it. Shocked anyone might want to read about what according to many never happened at all? And not just to 6 million Jews but 11 million total lives including elderly, disabled, orphans, sickly, Catholic priests, LGBQT+, Anarchists, Romani, so many others.

Maus. It is the only Pulitzer Prize winning comic novel for literature in history. That's right: A Pulitzer prize for a work so relevant if you haven't read it now you may never get a chance lest it be banned, banished or buried in its Maus Grave forever.

Back when I was teaching literature and composition, Maus was something I made sure was on the syllabus if I could at all justify it. It’s so powerful and personal and coherent, it defies any genre silo. (And it doesn’t surprise me at all that folks are trying to ban it.)