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Writ in Water
Happy World Water Day. Here we’d like to drop for you some words that were, like our names, writ in and on water–about things you could do today to… More
PEN Appeal: Ericson Acosta
March 22, 2012 President His Excellency Benigno Simeon Aquino III Republic of the Philippines Malacanang Palace Manila Philippines Fax: +63 2 735 6167 Secretary, Department of Justice (DOJ) Hon. Leila M. De Lima Padre Faura Street Ermita, Manila, 1000 Philippines Fax: +63… More
PEN Member Peter Sis Wins Hans Christian Andersen Award
PEN Member Peter Sis has won the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award, the most prestigious international award for a children’s book illustrator. Sis, who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia,… More
Elegy Traveling South on the Pearl River
A river / changes / course. / There is / nowhere / left to go, / when / a river / flows / a river / flows / to… More
Reading Is Not Optional: An Interview with Walter Dean Myers
Your recent YA novel Kick involved a collaboration between you and a high school student, with you and the student trading off writing chapters—you writing in the voice of… More
Breaking Through Cybercensorship
A passionate panel of cyberactivists convened at the Cooper Union as part of the ThinkSwiss festival to discuss new tools and approaches to combating online censorship. Sponsored by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and… More
Breaking Through Cybercensorship
[caption id="attachment_9784" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Photo by Olivier Delhoume"][/caption] A passionate panel of cyberactivists convened at the Cooper Union as part of the ThinkSwiss festival to discuss new tools and approaches to combating online censorship.… More
A Symposium on Translating the Literature of the Middle East
On Wednesday, March 28, the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College will present a symposium on the literature of the Middle East and those… More
Two Japanese Translators to Speak at the Bridge Series
The Bridge Series just turned one year old (happy birthday!), and by way of celebration, it will be presenting two outstanding translators from the Japanese this coming Monday: Ted… More
Where We Belong: A Conversation with Buket Uzuner and Amélie Nothomb
There is a difference between writing about yourself and about your personal life. Nowadays—not only in Turkey, but wherever I travel, mostly in Europe—young writers want to turn their… More