The PEN Pod: On Race, Place, and Belonging with Sejal Shah
“I’m certainly thinking about kinship. . . What do we owe our neighbors and fellow humans. . . for whom to be alive is a risk?” More
Confessions of a Penitentiary Death Dealer
"I was 21 years old and the last thing I was interested in was this, the last article I read before tossing the newspaper in my trash." More
Where the Wild Things Are
"I believe we are defined more by what we have done than by what has been done to us. In that sense, we are more robust than those that… More
Poker Face
"He would sit me at the table right next to him during his weekly poker games with the boys and teach me all about my poker face. I never… More
Under The Bridge
"Not too many things are difficult to deal with when you're high as a kite, soaring above the crowds of people on the streets of DC." More
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Earlier this year, PEN America spoke to @nupol_justice - president of @Blklivesmatter Greater NY about what #freespeech means to her and to the Black Lives Matter movement, why protests matter & how young people can harness the power of their voices: https://bit.ly/2CbbFt4.
Check out this reading list by PEN America's CEO @SuzanneNossel. These books have offered "a pathway for thinking through [free speech] issues and have helped to inform the principles for protecting free speech" in Suzanne's new book, DARE TO SPEAK: https://bit.ly/33GmXkd.