[VIRTUAL] PEN Out Loud: Brandon Hobson with Rebecca Makkai
PEN America Announces Winter PEN Out Loud Literary Conversation Lineup
“Following a fraught year in which we were challenged to reckon with our past, confront our present, and re-imagine our future, we turn to literature and these profoundly talented… More
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This remarkable anthology by @PENamerica on #IndiaAt75 is truly “a historic document” - a treasure trove of incisive, poignant & sublime writing by some of the finest writers today…
A #mustread collectors’ item…!
India at 75 - PEN America https://pen.org/india-at-75/
“Chilling”: GOP has introduced 136 “educational gag order” bills in 37 states just this year
"This year's bills have been strikingly more punitive," warns #PENAmerica
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/17/chilling-has-introduced-136-educational-gag-order-bills-in-37-states-just-this-year_partner/ via
@Salon #StudentsRights #TeachersOfTwitter
PEN America's @LieslGerntholtz: "The grotesque sentencing of Salma Al-Shehab"—a Saudi student at Leeds University (U.K.) sentenced to 34 years in prison for her Twitter activity—"is yet another abhorrent restriction of free expression in #SaudiArabia." https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-condemns-grotesque-sentencing-of-saudi-student-to-34-years-in-prison-for-her-tweets/