Two Interviews and a PEN Out Loud Playlist by Rion Amilcar Scott and Vinson Cunningham
"Books and their ideas gain so much more power when people come together to discuss them and think about them." More
Memory and Modernity: A PEN Out Loud Reading List
PEN America shares 17 genre-spanning works that consider power and memory in relation to contemporary and historical spaces. More
After Charlottesville
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
The only responsibility of a writer is to zealously chase his or her obsessions to every weird logical and illogical end. More
from Insurrections
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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THANK YOU for joining us to #StandWithSalman today at @nypl & THANKS ALSO to all the readers and writers around the world who joined us on social media, sharing #RushdiesWords, honoring his work for #FreeExpression around the world—& wishing @SalmanRushdie a very speedy recovery!
To participate in #StandWithSalman, I read an excerpt from Haroun and the Sea of Stories on my IG this afternoon and then wrote about it this evening.
@PENamerica
https://jeanspraker.com/2022/08/19/standwithsalman-in-a-sea-of-stories/
Read from @SalmanRushdie’s work tonight at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. #StandwithSalman @PENamerica
