World Voices, Hate Speech?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 28, 2015

Francine Prose, the essayist and author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel (Harper, 2014 -- soon to be published in paperback), talks about why she is one of the six authors to withdraw as a host from the PEN gala over its decision to bestow their Freedom of Expression Courage award to the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo.

Then Andrew Solomon, the president of PEN, professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University and National Book Award-winning author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity (Scribner, 2013), talks about the state of free expression as he gets ready to take office as PEN's next president.

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