Judge’s Ruling on Rapper’s Lyrics Represents a “Slap in the Face” to Free Expression
Julie Trébault, managing director of Artists at Risk Connection, a program of PEN America, said: “Judge Morgan’s ruling is alarming and a slap in the face to the right… More
The PEN Pod: Telling the Stories of New Orleans with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
“In New Orleans, sometimes they call people who are involved in storytelling or in music or the arts—they call them culture bearers. We bear the culture. We carry the… More
The PEN Pod: Lessons Learned in Uncertainty with Fatima Shaik
“That uncertainty can sort of be tamed, for me, by talking to other people and sharing on the phone, and by focusing on small things, small pleasures.” More