Siamanto’s Bloody News
An entire generation of Western Armenian writers were extinguished by the Ottoman government just as they were [...] bringing Armenian literature into modernism and into an international light. More
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When brown water overflowed the banks of the Salinas River in January, flooding thousands of acres, The Salinas Californian did not cover the story.
The last reporter at the 152-year-old paper serving a city of 163,000 quit in December. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-27/as-the-salinas-californian-withers-a-city-yearns-to-know-its-stories #LocalNews
Literature knows no frontiers. Yet books today are under profound attack. I'm joining @PENAmerica in the fight to defend the freedom to read. Sign and share this petition to show your support for diverse literature and writers across the country. https://bit.ly/33MOt24?source=twitter&
The children see book banning clearly for the attack on their reading lives and the desecration of their libraries that it is. https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1640039852593799170