PEN America Urges NO Vote By Greenville, S.C. County Council on Vaguely-Worded Resolution to Censor Childrens’ Books in Libraries
Jonathan Friedman, director of PEN America’s Free Expression and Education program, made the following comments: “If passed, this resolution would be an exercise in censorship--ordering the Greenville County Library System… More
The PEN Pod: The Journey to Cloud Cuckoo Land with Anthony Doerr
“Books allow us to slip out of the walls—the proverbial walls or the metaphorical walls—of our own lives. And thank goodness they do.” More
For Banned Books Week, PEN America LA Hosts a Book Drive for Migrant Children
In addition to enriching emotional, social, and cognitive development, children’s books also provide relief from the harsh realities of difficult journeys and uncertainties ahead. More
PEN America Calls on Trump Administration to Open Migrant Camps to Journalists’ Scrutiny
“It is shocking that the American public largely must learn about the dangerous conditions at these detention centers not through reporters being able to cover the news, but through… More
DARE: Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
ProPublica fuels the fire of a raging debate over family separations at the border through release of an audiotape of children wailing for their parents. LA Times, under new… More
Writing About Children and War
Since children are the most vulnerable citizens of any society, it seems rather obvious that they are the citizens most likely to be negatively affected by war. Until very… More
Proud to Be an Afghan Girl
The Afghan Women's Writing Project is a platform for Afghan women to develop their voices and discover their power in the world without the filter of the media… More
On Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
It’s a luxury in our country that banning books is by and large an academic argument...[W]hen we have a discussion of “banned” books in this country, what we are… More
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