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Statement: Publisher’s Decision to Pull “Bad and Boujee” Book is “Misguided and Regrettable”

Press ReleaseApril 16, 2022

"When debates over books and authors have a racial dimension, they can get heated quickly because they tap into long histories of exclusion and marginalization of people of color… More

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The PEN Pod: On Loose Ends and Plot Twists with Lisa Jewell

InterviewOctober 13, 2020

“The feeling of the book comes first. . . and then the bigger themes that encompass society and where we find ourselves now come much further down the line.” More

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The PEN Pod: On Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary with Fredrik Backman

InterviewOctober 9, 2020

“I was going to try to write something about the things that everyday people go around carrying—that feeling that everybody else has their life figured out, except for me.” More

Charles Yu

The PEN Pod: Letting Go of Our Illusions with Charles Yu

InterviewMay 6, 2020

“This moment and what I think will be the aftermath of it for a long time, is to actually make very real what has felt real for a long… More

Deborah Feldman

The PEN Pod: Creating Inner Worlds with Deborah Feldman

InterviewMay 1, 2020

“Use this opportunity to learn to create this rich inner self and this inner world, because later. . . those skills will remain very valuable.” More

Emily St. John Mandel

The PEN Pod: Finding Hope in Endurance with Emily St. John Mandel

InterviewApril 21, 2020

“This is something that our ancestors endured, and something that our descendants will endure, and our society. . . has endured through all of that.” More

N.K. Jemisin

The PEN Pod: Confronting Science Fiction and Our Reality with N.K. Jemisin

InterviewApril 20, 2020

“None of us could have written a story that had this kind of subplot because our editors would have been like, ‘It's unrealistic, go back and do it again.’” More

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The PEN Pod: Connecting through Translation with Ali Araghi

InterviewApril 16, 2020

“One function of translation we could think about is the way it shows how literature of other cultures have reacted to similar problems we are dealing with.” More

The PEN Pod: Rediscovering the Joys of Literature with Bernardine Evaristo

InterviewApril 15, 2020

“The characters start to come alive, and in a sense, those characters start to speak to me. . . And that, for me, is the magic of writing.” More

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Parts of Twitter’s source code were leaked online and appear to have been public for at least several months, raising fears that hackers or other motivated parties could exploit security vulnerabilities to extract user data or take down the site. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html

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