This is the first time that a whale is not the most endangered thing in the room.
I dont think that happens at a lot of other labor movements, Jost said.
Picket lines dogged a half dozen upfront presentations by media companies to advertisers this past week.
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But every writer that has come throughSaturday Night Liveis totally ungrateful…so resentful.
Americans have a soft spot for monkeys.
Theyre funny and you dont really know what they are going to do, and sometimes they throw feces.
Honoree Salman Rushdie speaks on stage at the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala, Bryan. Getty Images
It was a paean to comedy Even Shakespeare knew you needed laughs to keep the room.
He lost an eye in the attack and wore a patch.
I just want to say hi, everybody, its nice to be back.
Nice to be back, as opposed to not being back.
Which was also an option.
I am pretty glad that I rolled this way.
All of us involved with PEN spend a lot of time fighting on behalf of writers in other countries.
But right now, we face a problem in this country.
The attack on books, on teachers, on libraries … has never been more dangerous.
And, well, lets hope we win.
We need to win.
