Visual Disobedience: A Reading List
In celebration of PEN Out Loud: Visual Disobedience, PEN America and Strand Book Store have developed the following reading list. More
The Arab of the Future
The French bestseller details the author's childhood in rural France, Libya, and Syria, in the shadows of three dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his own father. More
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"I read at a 9th-grade level."
"I like getting books from our library—which we can't do right now."
"They've pulled all the award-winning books."
WATCH: Advanced 4th-grade readers in #Florida tell @wjxt4 how #censorship is holding back their education:
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/03/23/watch-florida-4th-graders-react-to-battle-over-school-libraries-media-centers/
"The legitimacy of our democracy depends on the free trade in information and ideas, including across international borders. Except in... extreme circumstances, citizens should be able to engage freely with the... platforms of their choice"—@JameelJaffer
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/opinion/tiktok-ban-first-amendment.html
Author Andrey Kurkov (a former @PenUkraine president) won a National @bookcritics Circle Award for his novel “Grey Bees,” about a beekeeper living in the “gray zone” in the Donbas, a region torn by conflict between Russian proxies & the Ukrainian military. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/books/national-book-critics-circle-award-2023.html