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Dark Realities: What Can't Be Said in Children's Books
In 2003, PEN's Children's Book Committee sponsored this panel discussion with Vera B. Williams, Wendy Lamb, Patricia Reilly Giff, Adam Rapp, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Joyce Carol Oates. Click below to read a selection from the talks.
Christopher Paul Curtis: What Can't Be Said in Children's Books
I do a lot of school visits and I’ve discovered that children are much more sophisticated than we as adults give them credit for.
Bruno Schulz: Life and Deaths
These remarks were part of "A Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Death of Bruno Schulz," sponsored by Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish History, with PEN American Center, YIVO, Goethe Institute, Polish Cultural Institute NY, and the Institute for the Humanities at New York University. Click below to read from some of the commentary.
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