Sarah Jessica Parker will be this year’s recipient of PEN America’s Literary Service Award. The “Sex and the City” star, a longtime advocate for reading and literacy, will be honored May 15 at the free expression organization’s annual gala.

Parker has been involved in numerous literary projects, whether as founder of her own publishing imprint or serving as executive producer of the anti-book banning documentary “The Librarians,” which premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival.

“We are now at a crisis point with books by underrepresented writers being pulled from school libraries and classrooms,” PEN co-CEO Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf said in a statement released Friday. “Sarah Jessica Parker is pushing back against these bans as an indispensable defender of the freedom to read and by shining a light on exceptional new voices of American contemporary literature.”

Issa Rae is latest celeb to shun kennedy center

“Insecure” star Issa Rae has canceled a previously scheduled event set to be held at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts following news that President Donald Trump was elected the center’s new chairman.

In a statement posted to her Instagram Story on Thursday, Rae thanked her followers for “selling out” her event.

“Unfortunately, due to what I believe to be an infringement on the values of an institution that has faithfully celebrated artists of all backgrounds through all mediums, I’ve decided to cancel my appearance at this venue,” Rae wrote.

The move comes after other Hollywood figures have resigned from their leadership positions within the organization after the center confirmed that Trump was elected chairman of the board in a statement Wednesday. A representative for Shonda Rhimes told CNN on Thursday that the “Grey’s Anatomy” producer has “resigned from the board of the Kennedy Center.” Musician Ben Folds, who was artistic adviser to the National Symphony Orchestra, announced Wednesday he was quitting.

ye and wife not divorcing, representative insists

Representatives for Ye and Bianca Censori are denying reports that the controversial couple are heading for divorce, in the wake of two weeks of headlines that include the rapper’s latest antisemitic outburst, his sale of swastika shirts and Censori’s nude Grammys stunt.

Talent management firm Tarantula told The Hollywood Reporter the musician once known as Kanye West, 47, and his wife, 30, are going strong mere hours after sources with direct knowledge told TMZ they were ending their marriage.

“Announcements about their private life will come from them directly, not unsourced rumor in the tabloid press,” Tarantula told the outlet Thursday afternoon.

— From wire reports