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International PEN's Free the Word! Festival

The second annual Free the Word! festival has been a great success, due in no small part to the work of Sarah Sanders, Caroline McCormick, Sharmilla Beezmohun, and everyone else from International PEN who helped organize and run these events. I was able to attend three of the discussions, all of which took place in the ...

PEN America #9: Checkpoints

The new issue of PEN America arrived earlier this week and has a ton of interesting articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry. The pieces by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed and Anya Ulinich look great, but the real highlight to me is the transcripts from some of the PEN World Voices events. There’s no way one can attend all the ...