The PEN Ten: An Interview with 2018 Prison Writing Award Winner Matthew Mendoza
"My best writing is about moments of magical awareness. I refused to give voice to the monotony, the bullying and violence that make up prison life." More
Freedom Feather
"I don't know if inmate Sanchez turned into a bird or not. It is interesting to imagine, isn't it, spending your life soaring where the air tastes the way… More
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PEN America On 
Outstanding piece by @andreacgore, Vacek Chair in pharmacology/professor of psychology at UT-Austin, defending faculty tenure against SB 18. She argues that immunotherapy would not exist if UT-Austin had not given tenure to its discoverer. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/university-texas-andrea-gore-professor-tenure-17816783.php
What does academic freedom mean now, and how might it change?
Here's our whole Future Trends Forum conversation with @ACEducation and @PENamerica researchers:
https://youtu.be/nQ8Kl0XJIr0
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HT @roxannriskin
#RIP John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
Woods was the recipient of two PEN America Translation awards, in 1981 and 1987
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/books/john-woods-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=l2BVLYlz1s2E6Jj-w9wuXxKMTrTuFBKAH_pxlFgj6UEgFGD3vXQEOhqVwAotjPgykwJC-NhRHTc5-9HCQpBJ4yCNKDEooSFdgI6YQ4a9jdbpoPHeyPNLmgfBztwRbWC58GKq28Mead5bbyfKdteJHA0U2HesfQmTk5oTWjVYmgkTVxpPk0C-yonoUK3gW-idLUAeR8IOWNJ8MWWrZ_AiPOM1ch59MnKrZQ7OrwHqp19CWMAfxGG_i9SN1tjir2DlKiTzk25A2lh-mrSvY9Zv0Stx14hmNsu87Ls_D0VUR-_qe0NDRb_UA23pztFUks7V7OeL0O6mpw&smid=url-share