To expand on Tara Gandy’s comments in the article “Greensburg Salem parent calls for change after teacher caught reading racial slur aloud in classroom,” regarding John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” (April 13, TribLIVE): Perhaps we ought to have a good old-fashioned book burning — maybe this week, during National Library Week.

Certainly on the pyre would be William Faulkner’s “Light in August.” And we ought to take a closer look at “Huckleberry Finn.”

The ignition point of paper is 451 degrees Fahrenheit. Thanks for that bit of information, Ray Bradbury.

Robert J. Bush

Murrysville

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