PEN World Voices Festival: Writing Humor for Kids, Seriously
A roundup of a fascinating panel for the PEN World Voices Festival on writing humor for kids that can be multilayered and subversive.
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Rally Against Project 2025
Why I’m going to a rally to protest Project 2025. What it is and why it’s a danger.
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A Book Launch in Uncertain Times
Connecting Eyes Open, launching this week, with the freedom struggle in Portugal and the need to value our democracy.
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Authors Speak Out Against Book Bans
Introducing Authors Against Book Bans, an organization for freedom of expression that I joined along with more than a thousand other authors.
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Translator in Trouble
Spreading the word to free a fellow translator, Necmiye Alpay, imprisoned and charged with political “crimes” in Turkey.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
