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Read the Resistance, February 2018: Wild Seed

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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After Charlottesville

Nonfiction
By: Sarah Edkins Lien | August 18, 2017

Claire Messud, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Robert Pinsky reflect on the hatred boiling over in our country. More

The PEN Ten with Rion Amilcar Scott

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By: Daniel José Older | March 29, 2017

The only responsibility of a writer is to zealously chase his or her obsessions to every weird logical and illogical end. More

from Insurrections

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By: Rion Amilcar Scott | February 24, 2017

I bet if I were to ask him about these old times, he’d deflect with his signature joke, I hated you all equally. More

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