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Katie Blankenship, a former ACLU of Florida litigator who this month became PEN America’s inaugural director in the state, said:…
House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development Hearing on “Diversity of Thought: Protecting…
“The regime’s determination to hunt down dissenters wherever they are instills a sense of fear from which there is no…
While many states have banned book lists that limit the books which can be mailed into prisons and jails, the…
Watch PEN America Publisher Honoree Richard Robinson’s remarks at the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala, including an introduction by actor…
New guidance on e-readers use in prisons seeks to expand reading, not supplant books altogether.
“Literature offers a way for people in prison to expand their minds, to retain a sense of connection to the…
PEN America condemns the governor’s actions as a politically-motivated exercise in censorship and intimidation that threatens to ban books and…
One of the most influential books written in English, Angelou’s transformative autobiography unleashed the genre of the American memoir to…
