NEW: PEN America calls for the immediate release of Mustafa Ali Hassanien, an Egyptian filmmaker and student at CUNY College of Staten Island. https://bit.ly/3jbmI5z

In Jeff Rowe's @AP book review of Claudia Rankine's JUST US, Rowe says "Rankine will be helping America understand itself, one conversation at a time": https://bit.ly/3kUe0JJ. Join Claudia for #PENOutLoud on 09/30 to discuss JUST US with @proseb4bros: https://bit.ly/2XXutn1.

Join us this Wednesday 9/30 at 4PM ET for the first in PEN America's fall series "Free Expression and the Humanities" organized with the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. Register: https://ihgc.as.virginia.edu/free-expression-humanities-pen-americaihgc.