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Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the WordToni Morrison''A writer′s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity'' - Toni Morrison, Burn this Book Published in conjunction with the PEN American center, Burn this Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. Contributors include literary heavyweights like Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, David Grossman and Nadine Gordimer, and others. In ''Witness: The Inward Testimony'' Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees ''what is really taking place.'' She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding ''Literature has been and remains a means of people rediscovering themselves.'' ''In Freedom to Write'' Orham Pamuk elegantly describes escorting Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter around Turkey and how that experience changed his life. In ''The Value of the Word'' Salman Rushdie shares a story from Bugakov′s novel The Master and the Margarita in which the Devil talks to a frustrated writer called ''The Master'' The writer is so upset with his own work he decides to burn it: ''How could you do that?'' the devil asks... ''Manuscripts to not burn.'' Indeed, manuscripts do not burn, Rushdie argues, but writers do. As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both provocative and timely, Burn this Book include a sterling list of award winning writers; it sure to ignite spirited dialogue.
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