i speak and at great length with ceo suzanne nossel. or an author. will explore the core principles that guide our meetings every single week, a hard look at expression and censorship. today, we discussed with the freedom to read, to write, and to speak looks like in today's america. this is not black and white. the line is not that thin. i'm going to present this the best way we know how to on the book club, with the whole story. here's how it goes. just yesterday, pen america announced the cancellation of its 2024 world voices festival. the annual festival, which was scheduled to begin on may 8 was set to feature writers from around the world. the world voices festival was founded 20 years ago by the writer and activist salman rushdie. this comes after hundreds of authors and staffers called on pen america to take a stronger stance against the israeli offensive in gaza. everything came to a head this week with the issues dating back to the initial hamas attack on israel on october 7th. three days after hamas terrorists reached the bor