DARE: State Department Bars Press Corps from Pompeo Briefing, Won’t Release List of Attendees
State Department excludes its press corps from a briefing call with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and says it won't distribute a transcript or list of... More
Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There
Critically-acclaimed debut author Tommy Orange is the winner of the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel There There (Knopf), PEN America announced today. More
Expand Your Understanding: A Reading List
A recommended reading list compiled in anticipation of March's PEN Out Loud discussion with Layli Long Soldier and Claudia Rankine. More
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London’s police department said on Friday that it would begin using facial recognition technology in the city to identify people off the street in real time with video cameras, adopting a level of surveillance that is rare outside of China. https://nyti.ms/2GiTwrD
I stand with Dwayne, who is consistently cited as a profound source of inspiration to countless writers in prison--many of whom are subject to the same manipulative "security threat" claims. Here is an OpEd about the censorship we witness @PENamerica.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/09/want-to-write-fiction-in-us-prisons-it-might-be-censored-on-security-grounds?CMP=share_btn_tw https://twitter.com/dwaynebetts/status/1220540059860045827