Much of their life then was decided for them by well-meaning adults. My children spent their early childhood in Latvia, primarily in a government-run orphanage. I read Number the Stars by Lois Lowry to my children because it held a message of both resistance and agency.
Andrew Solomon, president of NBCC Sandrof-award winning PEN American Center and Trustee Masha Gessen will host American Poets Laureate Robert Pinsky and Rita Dove will share original “inaugural” poems written for the occasion and dozens of writers and artists will speak and read on the ideals of democracy. (NBCC Reads from previous years here.) We’re posting these in advance of the #WritersResist events to be held on January 15-Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday-throughout the country, including an event on the steps of the New York Public Library. What’s your favorite work of resistance literature? That’s the question that launches this year’s NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC members and honorees at this time of cultural shift.
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