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Power to the People: A World Voices Festival Reading List
The books in this reading list push boundaries and challenge inherited narratives. We hope you’ll check out each of these titles and also join us for the virtual festival. More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Carribean Fragoza
“Fiction is very real to me, not just because my characters and settings are often inspired by real people. . . but because they also address emotions and ideas… More
We Will Emerge: Awareness
These brief essays for “We Will Emerge” envision a society more compassionate and more aware of the experiences that both separate and unite us. More
Open Letter to Los Angeles City Council Members from Los Angeles Literary Arts Organizations and Allies
We write as Los Angeles-based literary arts organizations and allies supporting this city’s writers and literary professionals amid the COVID-19 epidemic. More
Letter: Writers, Academics, and Free Speech Advocates Call on Babson to Reinstate Professor
Dr. Stephen Spinelli Jr. Office of the President Babson College We, the undersigned, write to express our concern at the recent firing of Asheen Phansey by Babson College. As a group of… More
Kathy Griffin, Chrissy Metz, and Susan Kelechi Watson Join Illustrious Lineup of PEN America’s 2019 LitFest Gala in LA
“We could not be more excited to have Kathy Griffin and Chrissy Metz joining our LitFest Gala lineup this year. These incredible women have both used their voices to… More
PEN America to Honor “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and “Unbelievable” at 11/1/19 Litfest Gala in Los Angeles
In what is expected to be an incredibly poignant moment during the ceremony, actor, author, and reading and education advocate LeVar Burton will deliver a tribute to the legendary… More
What the Trump administration gets very wrong about free speech
"A generation of sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes." That's how Attorney General Jeff Sessions described college students in late July. The Trump administration's Justice Department is diving into the roiling waters… More
What Jeff Sessions doesn’t get about U.S. higher education and political correctness
Last week, I wrote a post about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s miserable performance at a gathering of high school students — when he had a chance to be a… More
Sessions’ Remarks Present a Misleading Depiction of Students’ Attitudes to Free Expression on Campus
"Sessions' harsh description of students as 'sanctimonious' snowflakes and his one-sided list of examples of speech infringements miscast the argument in ways that will only deepen the rancor over… More
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