In its celebration of imagination, Dr. Seuss’s first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, from 1937, was more important to my development as a writer than my parents. So the recent news flash that it had been cancelled — pulled out of print by its own publisher — spun my mind back to the time the government of Canada cancelled…
Richard D. Mohr
Richard D. Mohr is professor emeritus of philosophy and classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies.