Teacher Suspended For Giving 9th Grader 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'

May 6, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Teacher Suspended For Giving 9th Grader 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Although "Fifty Shades of Grey" may be a hit with housewives across the country, Philadelphia mother Maya Ladson was decidedly displeased to find a copy of the erotic fiction novel in her teenage son's backpack. Ladson was even more unhappy to discover that her son's teacher had bought the book for him. "The minute I found out about it, it raised concern," Ladson told Philadelphia NBC affiliate NBC 10 on Thursday. "This is not OK to me. This is major."  Continue reading... 12 Things You Didn't Know About F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Title Surprise For New Bill O'Reilly Book WATCH: Make 'Gone Girl' Cupcakes Teacher Suspended For Giving 9th Grader 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Best New Books Out This Week Harper Lee Files Lawsuit Over 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Teacher Suspended For Giving 9th Grader 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Harper Lee Files Lawsuit Over 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Teacher Suspended For Giving 9th Grader 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' JESSE KORNBLUTH Great Gatsby Overload? Try the Anti-Gatsby. The Book: The Last Tycoon. Author? F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is days away from public unveiling, but there's such a media storm around it I feel like I've already seen it. So I'm turning my attention to the anti-Gatsby. Which turns out also to have been written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Continue reading... ALISON SPIEGEL Inside This Year's Food Book Fair It was a perfect weekend for the Food Book Fair, a three-day series of panel discussions, cooking demonstrations, book signings and meet-and-greets celebrating food and the words, art, ideas and people behind it. Continue reading... MEG WAITE CLAYTON Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview "I love books and movies that grab you from the get-go, and I always believe that a book is a question that demands an answer, so I like starting that way. But my writing always starts with a question that haunts me -- How do we know the ones we love?" Continue reading... MICHAEL HOGAN 'Game Of Thrones' Recap, Season 3, Episode 6: 'The Climb' Is All There Is Of all the things, Theon's tormentor says, the only thing I genuinely believe is this: "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." Honestly, I think the same could be said for this whole series. Continue reading... ANNE MARGARET DANIEL F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood: Writing for the Movies, 1937-1940 Not surprisingly, films have been made of Fitzgerald's own books and short stories from the early 1920s to today. However, the earlier movies have all failed, and for the same reason. Fitzgerald's so hard to film because his words already have done all the cinematic work. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003