“A necessary voice on the page”: a PEN Ten Interview with Amber Flora Thomas
"Yes, I do experience this persona. She (generally) is a necessary voice on the page—she gives me distance from experiences I cannot hold in my body any longer." More
A PEN Ten Interview with Poet Cynthia Manick
"It’s a writer’s job to take truth and empathy and stretch it every direction; to make sense of things that don’t make sense." More
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ICYMI: President Trump’s proposed fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget, titled “A Budget for a Better America” proposed permanent elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), effectively ending all federal funding of public libraries. https://t.co/xRIAf7KQ3P
Nora Roberts sues Brazilian writer for plagiarism: Cristiane Serruya, who is accused of stealing from dozens of other novelists, blames ghostwriters she had hired on the freelance marketplace Fiverr. #CopyPasteCris https://t.co/ctcVeAXwv5
Facebook said on Wednesday that it expected to be fined up to $5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations. The penalty would be a record by the agency against a technology company https://t.co/QROutpqrPe