PEN protests Treasury Department regulations that interfere with publishing
Dear Secretary Snow and Mr. Newcomb, We are writing on behalf of the 2,700 professional writers, editors, and translators who are members of PEN American Center to request an… More
Treasury Dept. is warning publishers of the perils of editing
Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do to their prose. The federal government has recently weighed in on the same issue — literally. More
U.S. Embargo Extended to Editing Articles
WASHINGTON—For U.S. publishers, changing so much as a comma in an author's work can be more than a delicate process. It can be criminal—punishable by fines of up to… More
Book, library groups launch Patriot Act petition campaign
Groups representing booksellers, librarians and writers today launched a nationwide effort to obtain one million signatures in support of legislation to amend Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. More
Bryant Park event reflects on the freedoms to write and read
PEN American Center, National Coalition Against Censorship and American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression sponsored this reading to reflect on the freedoms to write and read seventy years after… More
PEN protests Ashcroft comments on librarians, urges repeal of Patriot Act
Dear Mr. Ashcroft, We are writing to protest in the strongest possible terms your recent speech deriding the concerns that librarians, booksellers, and other organizations have expressed over Section… More
Letters protest disciplining teacher for assigning Russell Banks book
Dear Chancellor Klein: As you may recall, we wrote you last January about a censorship incident at Brooklyn Tech High School involving the Russell Banks novel, Continental Drift. More… More
Congress must safeguard Americans’ freedom to read, book community says
PEN, the worldwide association of professional writers, today joined with colleagues from the publishing, bookselling and library communities in calling upon Congress to safeguard one of our most cherished… More
Book groups protest secrecy on bookstore, library subpoenas
Groups representing authors, book publishers, and booksellers have criticized the Justice Department for refusing to reveal publicly how many times it has used its power under the U.S.A. PATRIOT… More
PEN fights Bush executive order on presidential papers
PEN American Center has joined the legal battle to reverse President Bush's executive order limiting access to presidential papers and to authorize the National Archives to administer the Presidential… More
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