PEN Canada envisions a world where
writers are free to write,
readers are free to read,
and freedom of expression prevails
This guide helps you understand prisoners’ right to read, and how you can send books to inmates.
In April 2006 Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Canadian-Iranian scholar and philosopher, was arrested in Tehran and spent the next four months in Evin Prison, answering questions about his alleged role in a “soft overthrow” of the government.
Video recap and liveblog of PEN Canada’s “Future of the Book” event with Paul Holdengräber and Hugh McGuire at Spur Festival Toronto.
Books have never been individual pursuits. There are editors and put-upon friends, colleagues, trusted advisors, agents, mothers and fathers, workshoppers, copyeditors, proofreaders, designers … all of whom influence what book is finally published. No writer is an island.
As the future of the written word shifts from static pages to animated screens, readers, publishers, and writers alike have begun to consider the same fundamental question: what is the future of the book?
I am an enemy to the concept of “inappropriate” as here described, because it is a veiled form of an uglier – less “appropriate” – term, namely censorship
A new category of books was established – Not For You. I pretended to respect this designation, but in fact read them on the sly whenever I had a chance.
Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules