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Dear Friend,
The past two years have affronted all of us with unprecedented challenges, but the pandemic has been particularly hard on writers and artists—the very people whose work will ultimately tell the story of our era. I’m heartened by all we’ve done at PEN America to try to mitigate their burdens so that they can continue to wrest meaning and illumination from even the bleakest times.
As a writer and former PEN America president, I’ve come to think of literature as the dream life of the surrounding culture; it affirms our humanity, our complexity, and our deep connection to one another. When you support PEN America, you support the practice of writing and the belief that literature matters vitally and fundamentally.
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