Sarah Jessica Parker will receive PEN America’s Literary Service Award, given to “a writer or advocate who has served the literary community through their words or work,” the AP reports. PEN co-ceo Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf said in a statement, “We are now at a crisis point with books by underrepresented writers being pulled from school libraries and classrooms. Sarah Jessica Parker is pushing back against these bans as an indispensable defender of the freedom to read and by shining a light on exceptional new voices of American contemporary literature through her publishing imprint SJP Lit.” Macmillan ceo Jon Yaged will […]
