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Jenny Boylan 🦞

@jennyboylan.bsky.social

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Author of 19 Books. Barnard/Columbia prof. President, PEN America. Former chair, GLAAD. Pizzaiola.

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Jenny Boylan 🦞 @jennyboylan.bsky.social · Mar 2

A possible way of being in the world.

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Jenny Boylan 🦞 @jennyboylan.bsky.social · 9h

Good night. I love you.

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Jenny Boylan 🦞 @jennyboylan.bsky.social · 1d

Lifetime Achievement Award to Margaret Atwood at the Eleanor Roosevelt Center in Hyde Park tonight. I delivered the keynote on behalf of @PEN America.

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Here is her own good self live on ABC News. For PEN America.

Free people write books.
Free people read books.

Including books that contain ideas with which we disagree. That’s what makes us Americans.

Or used to, anyhow.

Video Report finds ‘disturbing’ normalization of banned books in U.S.

ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos speaks with Jennifer Finley Boylan, president of PEN America, discusses a report that show there are more banned books than any living American has seen in their lifetime.

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Jenny Boylan 🦞 @jennyboylan.bsky.social · 2d

Herself, on ABC News tonight.

FREE PEOPLE WRITE BOOKS. FREE PEOPLE READ BOOKS. ALL BOOKS.

including those that contain ideas with which we might not agree.
@penamerica.bsky.social

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Velshi Banned Book Club: Author Jennifer Finney Boylan on PEN America’s ‘Banned in the USA’ list

Book bans have slowly become normalized in recent years and a new report from PEN America shows the alarming consequences. Under President Trump, the book ban movement has escalated with the federal g...

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 8d

There have been nearly 7,000 instances of books pulled off school shelves in 2025, according to PEN America. @jennyboylan.bsky.social joins me at 12p ET for today's #VelshiBannedBookClub on the growing number of book bans in America.