Sameer Pandya
Sameer Pandya is the author of The Blind Writer: Stories and a Novella, which was longlisted for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. His fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Other Voices, Faultline, and Epiphany. He earned a BA from UC Davis and a PhD from Stanford University, and he currently teaches literature and creative writing in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
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A Republican state lawmaker has launched an investigation into whether Texas school districts carry any of 850 book titles in their libraries -- 850! -- wants to know how many copies they have and how much money they spent on them.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/26/texas-school-books-race-sexuality/
A concentrated set of users on Twitter drive 70% of the hate content targeting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a new analysis found. https://bit.ly/3benywa
Important article by @PENamerica ‘s @SuzanneNossel Chinese Censorship Is Going Global https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/26/chinese-censorship-enes-kanter-celtics-browder-is-going-global/
