DARE: Stephen King Among the Honorees at PEN America Gala
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale, tells the 2018 PEN America Literary Gala that "the autocrats' playbook for discrediting critical coverage… is now going viral" and warns "the… More
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Jeffrey Eugenides remembers reading Midnight's Children: "I thought it would be nice to meet the author. So I looked him up in the London phone book.
There it was... I took the Tube there..." (1/2) #StandWithSalman
@PENamerica @SalmanRushdie @nypl "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
Salman Rushdie
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"A butterfly flaps its wings in India, and we feel the breeze on our cheeks here in New York." @dwaynebetts reads from The Power of the Pen, @SalmanRushdie's 2005 Arthur Miller Lecture at the @PENWorldVoices Festival.
#Rushdie co-founded the festival in 2005. #StandWithSalman