At Gala, PEN Doubles Down and Defends Itself“The defense rests,” executive director Suzanne Nossel said. “And for those who didn’t want to be here and didn’t feel comfortable, tout est pardonné.”
ByBoris Kachka
literary criticism
How and Why 35 Writers Denounced PEN Over Charlie HebdoDepending on how you look at it and whom you ask, the PEN protest unfolded with a level of planning somewhere between a targeted strike and, in the words of one writer’s tweet, “a shitshow.”
