On Pressing the Bounds of What’s Possible: A Conversation with Emile DeWeaver
PEN America Prison and Justice Writing intern Charley Burlock interviews writer Emile DeWeaver. More
Groundbreaking Essay Anthology on Writing Behind Bars Published
Today marks the publication of The Sentences that Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket Books), gathering stories and writing guidance from some of today’s most exciting… More
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Diskursverbote bestimmten in Amerika nicht mehr nur die Verlage und Hollywood, das Bildungswesen ist davon durchdringen: Warum eine solche #Identitätspolitik ein Ausverkauf der Phantasie ist. Ein Gastbeitrag des @PENamerica-Chef @ayadakhtar. https://trib.al/sA65MCL #CancelCulture
"Republican members of Congress, leading conservative media commentators, contrarian substackers, conservative tech bros, and friends of Donald Trump... believe that if they are not allowed to post porno, our constitutional republic may be in jeopardy." https://www.thebulwark.com/no-you-do-not-have-a-constitutional-right-to-post-hunter-bidens-dick-pic-on-twitter/
The "women should be locked in cages" guy who just got back on Twitter.
His point, he explains in this article, is to create outrageous spectacle that "desensitizes people to these ideas."
Duly noted.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/