Breaking Through Cybercensorship
[caption id="attachment_9784" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Photo by Olivier Delhoume"][/caption] A passionate panel of cyberactivists convened at the Cooper Union as part of the ThinkSwiss festival to discuss new tools and approaches to combating online censorship.… More
Turkish Translator and Publisher on Trial: Take Action!
Last year, I reported on the trial of Turkish publisher İrfan Sancı and translator Süha Sertabiboğlu for their January 2011 publication of William S. Burrough’s 1961 novel The Soft… More
Turkish Translator and Publisher on Trial: Take Action!
[caption id="" align="none" width="320" caption="Turkish editions of Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs and Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk"][/caption] Last year, I reported on the trial of Turkish publisher ?rfan Sanc?… More
Opening Up to the Family of Nations: A Conversation with Tom Fleming
The reason I joined PEN is really quite simple. I had been censored. More
Reality Far More Absurd: A Conversation with Zhou Qing
I’m a writer. I can’t build useful machines, nor can I farm crops. Given that I can write, I need to spill ink towards something significant, meaningful. More
Free Speech Orgs Criticize Dismissal of Wisconsin Library Board
Four members of a library board in West Bend, Wis., were dismissed last week for refusing to remove controversial books from the library’s young adult section—and yesterday, the American… More
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Join us Friday August 19:
One week after the brutal attack on author @SalmanRushdie, the NY literary community is rallying in solidarity and presenting public readings from Rushdie's works on the steps of @nypl on 5th Avenue.
#StandWithSalman. Details: https://pen.org/event/stand-with-salman/
There's a "before" & "after" to the new #SalmanRushdie affair. This terrorist attack requires a strong reply. So, in @TheAtlantic, my call for the author of #TheSatanicVerses, and my dear friend, Salman Rushdie, to receive the #NobelPrize in Literature. https://bit.ly/3JZ22vX
