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New PEN America Report Warns Against Canceling Books Due to ...


New PEN America Report Warns Against Canceling Books Due to ...

In a new report, Booklash: Literary Freedom, Online Outrage, and the Language of Harm, PEN America warns that social media blowback and ...

PEN America on X: " In a new report, PEN America warns against ...

In a new report, PEN America warns against the cancellation of books due to online outrage—and calls for a broad recommitment to the freedom ...

US Election Eve: PEN America's Book Banning Report

Given a preview earlier in the autumn, PEN America's Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves report is a devastating snapshot of the world's ...

In a new report, PEN America warns against the cancellation of ...

In a new report, PEN America warns against the cancellation of books due to online outrage—and calls for a broad recommitment to the freedom ...

PEN America warns publishers: avoid banning books over moral ...

In a new report, PEN America warns against the cancellation of books due to online outrage—and calls for a broad recommitment to the freedom ...

Banned in the USA - PEN America

PEN America's report on school book bans offers the most comprehensive look at banned books in the 2021–22 school year, with counting more ...

PEN America Report Confirms School Book Bans Are Surging

Over the last three years, the organization has counted close to 16,000 instances of book bans in public schools impacting 6,143 titles. The ...

PEN America - IFEX

PEN America warns that social media blowback and societal outrage are imposing new moral litmus tests on books and authors.

Banned in the USA: The Mounting Pressure to Censor - PEN America

Book bans in public K–12 schools continue to intensify. In the 2022–23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of books banned, ...

Report: Last year ended with a surge in book bans - NPR

PEN America says there was an "unprecedented" surge in book bans during the latter half of 2023, according to a new report.

Beyond Book Banning: PEN America Warns of 'Booklash'

PEN America's report, issued this morning in New York City (August 7), starts the week off with a stark “warning against canceling books because ...

Booklash - PEN America

The report ends with conclusions and recommendations, including a call for literary and publishing institutions to uplift the Freedom to Read ...

PEN America Finds New State Laws Are Supercharging School ...

The ALA reported 414 tracked challenges to censor library materials in the first eight months of 2024, down from 695 challenges during the same ...

Press Releases - Page 36 of 294 - PEN America

Scholars in California Should be Allowed to Testify in Covid Learning Loss Case, Says PEN America · Growing Repression and Persecution of Writers and Artists in ...

Censorship: PEN America Sees US Book Bannings Triple

Censorship: PEN America Sees US Book Bannings Triple · The ALA and PEN America Offer New Data on Recent Book Bans: Book Censorship News, September 27, 2024.

Press Releases - Page 35 of 294 - PEN America

PEN America: Police Raid on Kansas Newspaper “Almost Certainly” Violates Federal Law · Hunt to Identify Books with “Sexual Content” Empties Some Library Shelves ...

PEN America cancels 2024 awards after authors drop out over Gaza

1.3K votes, 148 comments. 25M subscribers in the books community. This is a moderated subreddit. It is our intent and purpose to foster and ...

America's Censored Classrooms 2024

Since 2021, PEN America has tracked state-level educational censorship legislation in our Index of Educational Gag Orders. In this report, we ...

PEN America Report Details the Dangers of Book Backlashes

... of Harm, PEN America warns that social media blowback and societal outrage are imposing new moral litmus tests on books and authors ...

pen america News and Opinion - Common Dreams

PEN America found that 10,000 titles were censored over the last year as new laws went into effect in states including Iowa and Florida.