PEN America hosted a timely panel on March 5, “Writing Wrongs: Call-Outs, Correctness, and Culture Wars,” falling just days after queer black author Kosoko Jackson responded to Twitter criticism of his YA novel by canceling its publication. Readers faulted the book for using genocide as the backdrop to a love story, among other sensitivity issues—and Jackson, who has himself served as a sensitivity reader for other titles, agreed. On the PEN panel: authors Ayad Akhtar, Francine Prose, and Meredith Talusan; former NY Review of Books editor Ian Buruma; Slate writer Inkoo Kang; and New York Times critic-at-large Wesley Morris. Suzanne […]
