Michael Cunningham Introduces A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
Michael Cunningham offers opening remarks to the 2008 PEN event A Tribute to Chinua Achebe.
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Hundreds of writers will gather on the steps of the New York Public Library on at 11 AM Friday August 19 to read from Salman Rushdie’s works, in a recreation of an event first held after the fatwa on the author was issued in 1989. #StandWithSalman #NYC https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/aug/17/hundreds-of-authors-to-read-from-salman-rushdies-works-in-show-of-solidarity
Kudos to @jeremycyoung, @jonfreadom, @JeffreyASachs and others at @PENamerica for their ESSENTIAL work on *educational gag orders.* Everyone who cares about public education should read their new report--
https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/
Moscow-controlled Supreme Court in Crimea has shortened the prison term of journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko by one year to 5 years.
Yesypenko—the 2022 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award honoree—was detained in Russian-occupied Crimea on March 10, 2021.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-crimea-yesypenko-sentence-reduced-rferl/31994396.html#0_8_10089_8766_2710_242887410
