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    Two novelists have cut ties with PEN over its Mayim Bialik event and Gaza silence.

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    The Hub

    Read novelist Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship.

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    Indie comics powerhouse Fantagraphics has denounced the genocide in Gaza.

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