Colin Jost opened the PEN America Gala under the iconic model of a blue whale at the Museum of Natural History calling himself “a writer and a friend of writers” and “extremely fortunate to be here…
Ted Sarandos Will Skip PEN America Gala Honoring Him Amid WGA Strike Given "Threat To Disrupt" Event
PEN had lauded Sarandos’ “singular work translating literature to artful presentation on screen, and his stalwart defense of free expression and satire.” The WGA says Netflix and streamers have led writers to lower pay and the Hollywood craft to an uncertain future. “As a writers’ organization, we have been following recent events closely and understand his decision,” PEN said of Sarandos. The program Thursday night focused on book banning in the U.S.
“He gave so many writers the chance to have a national network TV audience, to speak to the entire country. But every writer that has come throughis totally ungrateful…so resentful. I contacted multiple writers for their favorite stories and the conversations would descend into bitching about a sketch that he cut 43 years ago.”
Michaels, accepting the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, paid them back a bit, dwelling in his remarks on the Infinite Monkey Theorem — “that if you locked a bunch of monkeys in a room with typewriters, sooner or later they would write Hamlet.” The event closed with Booker Prize Winner Rushdie, PEN president and resident hero, who spoke about his near fatal stabbing on stage at the Chautauqua Institute in New York last summer, his first in-person appearance since. He lost an eye in the attack and wore a patch. “I just want to say hi, everybody, it’s nice to be back. Nice to be back, as opposed to not being back. Which was also an option. I am pretty glad that I rolled this way.
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