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"At one point I couldn’t help asking my investigator “Why am I here? I mean, I published an op-ed. Isn’t that the reason for constitutional free speech? You can’t lose your job for being a writer!” Apparently, I had yet to learn, you can."
Melissa Petro, It Happened to Me: I Was In The “Rubber Room” | xoJane
Melissa is awesome, and she will be HERE talking about censorship and first amendment rights at the Banned Books Week Party on Wednesday, September 28.
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About Us
We are a nonprofit bookstore, cafe, and event space in downtown NYC. All proceeds from every show you attend and everything you buy, down to a record and a PBR, go directly to our mission of fighting AIDS and homelessness. 126 Crosby Street, NYC
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Alison Espach: The Adults
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Faulkner was a postmaster, Kafka an insurance agent, Brontë a governess. The day jobs of famous...
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Laura Miller on the first fictional aliens in the New Yorker SF issue. With a special illustration...
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A page from Herman Melville’s journal, about meeting Captain Pollard...
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