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Pushing Past Constraints: A Reading List

Recommended ReadingFebruary 6, 2019

A reading list compiled in anticipation of February’s PEN Out Loud event with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Isaac Fitzgerald to discuss Friday Black. More

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PENamericaPEN America@PENamerica·
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"Roy ... became one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation." Award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy breaks the boundary between fiction & nonfiction: https://t.co/IARdWBrb8n via @washingtonpost.

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I’ll be co-leading this free editing workshop for @PENamerica and @SouthSideWeekly with the inimitable @CateCahan of @WBEZ! Join us this Saturday from 1-3 pm! https://t.co/lG8AbX9flS

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jzfriedmanJonathan Friedman@jzfriedman·
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Re this latest survey from PEW, it's critical that we take seriously the negative view that's been generated of #highered. But a lot of that impression has been based on inflated anecdotes and caricatures, as I told @chronicle here. https://t.co/LteBz11g92

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