Washington (AFP) – A school board in Tennessee has added to a surge in book bans by conservatives with an order to remove the award-winning 1986 graphic novel on the Holocaust, “Maus,” from local student libraries. Author Art Spiegelman told CNN Thursday — coincidentally International Holocaust Remembrance Day — that the ban of his book for crude language was “myopic” and represents a “bigger and stupider” problem than any with his specific work. The ban, decided by the McMinn County Board of Education in eastern Tennessee on January 10, sparked a national uproar among advocates of literary …