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Print The members of this particular online book club spent zero time talking about literature per se, instead focusing on how to smuggle banned writings into Iran. Prospective readers, the members said, should not have to worry about authorities in the Islamic Republic obtaining their personal information. They should have the freedom to choose what books they want to read. “I’m worried that if people send us their address so that we mail the books, it’ll get leaked to authorities,” one man based in Canada recently told the 10-member group in Persian. For months, the group, which includes writers and translators living in self-exile from Iran as well as others still living there, has sought ways to ensure its members’ voices are heard in the motherland. Others eager to distribute writings on topics that are forbidden by Iran’s leaders include the head of a London-based clandestine publishing operation and novelists in the diaspora running online ....