Alternative Childhoods: A World Voices Festival Reading List from Andrés Barba
Writer Andrés Barba shares a few of his favorite books by authors who have taken on the immense task and risk of portraying childhood in their writing. More
PEN Podcast: Neil Gaiman Performs at An Evening with the Moth
In celebration of his birthday tomorrow, the PEN Podcast features Neil Gaiman telling a story during An Evening with the Moth, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
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Join PEN America in Dallas on 9/29 for a special #BannedBooksWeek event that will assess the negative impacts of censoring political and historical writing with @BryanBurrough and @JimSchutze. Moderated by novelist and professor @SanderiaFaye. https://bit.ly/3AsJ5fz
Two activists based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou – including one of China’s most well-known women’s rights campaigners, have lost contact with their friends, raising fears that the pair may have been detained by police. https://bit.ly/3EFO0fC
100 THINGS WE'VE LOST TO THE INTERNET by @PamelaPaulNYT is "full of brief, nostalgic, jaundiced, often charming essays about what has fallen by the wayside in the digital age." It's also one of @chicagotribune's "60 best reads for right now"! https://bit.ly/39pPWKQ
