And I want to add: PEN should stand with all writers—but you cannot stand with the dead. Protecting those who are at risk of death supersedes all other concerns. Stand for people rather than ideas. Standing is a metaphor when you are speaking of the dead.

Congratulations to Ada Zhang, winner of a 2024 Whiting Award for Fiction! whiting.org/awards/winners…

In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this week––

Bird flu has been detected in some birds found in New York City parks and green spaces.

Health officials are growing more concerned about the disease and warn New Yorkers to keep their distance from wildlife. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/b…

What an authentic gesture of solidarity 👏 I'm ordering these authors' books. Please do the same. Tell your libraries to order them.

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That’s right, the US has been feeding cows chicken waste. Other countries ban this practice. The wounds are always self-inflicted, & usually driven by profit motives.

Pamona college called riot cops to mass arrest their own students for supporting Palestine. Funny how campus free speech was the most important issue on earth to conservatives until colleges everywhere started attacking their own student for opposing genocide.

When visiting New York in the 90's, Benjamin Netanyahu used to sleep in Jared Kushner's childhood bedroom.

This was reported by the NYT in 2017 and it seems relevant to any reporting on Kushner's poisonous views about Palestine.

my birthday wish? that you pick up a copy of BROUGHTUPSY & encourage everyone in yr life to do the same.

i don’t have soaring language to describe this need. here it is, open and bare.

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The disconnect between public perception of academia vs. the reality is so immense. Anti-intellectuals on the right and left assume that academia is run by--and full of cushy tenured jobs for--'Marxists.' The reality is that universities are run like neoliberal businesses. 1/

MOST ABORTIONS ARE FOR WOMEN WHO ARE MARRIED AND ALREADY HAVE CHILDREN

So whatever your politics, Sylvia's case is important.

It asks the Supreme Court a big question: In what scenarios should government officials be immune for jailing their critics?

That's not a left or right issue. That's an everyone issue. /9 reason.com/2023/10/16/sup…

Sylvia isn't the first.

I've written a lot about Priscilla Villarreal, a Texas journalist who was arrested because police didn't like her coverage of them. If *that* isn't a 1A violation, then what is?

They all got qualified immunity anyway. /7
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Then there's William Fambrough, an elderly man who campaigned for the 'wrong' mayoral candidate.

So law enforcement destroyed his van—which he used to campaign—& hit him w petty prosecutions, in part for making 'complaints about the police.'

I can't. /8
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This is Sylvia Gonzalez. At age 72, she won an upset victory for city council after campaigning to oust the city manager. The mayor didn't like that.

So he had her arrested & jailed.

The Supreme Court is about to hear her case, which has largely gone unnoticed. A thread.

i know all of these books are going to take me out at the knees and i can’t wait 🚀🔥🚀 santiago jose sanchez Emma Copley Eisenberg Michelle Tea Zoë Bossiere Shze-Hui Tjoa AKWAEKE Ada Limón

The first trade review of AMÉRICA DEL NORTE is up at Publishers Weekly! Preorder if you feel so inclined? penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737472/a…

congress has taken more forceful action against tiktok than they have an ongoing genocide, the housing crisis, student loans, saving women’s right to choose, or climate change