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The PEN Ten with Peter von Ziegesar
Writing about my family in a memoir was about as daring as it gets ... I was sure that when the book came out I was going to be… More
In Cold Blood: Practicing Our Humanity on the Page
In a great book, even the most despicable characters have a chance for redemption, perhaps, one might argue, more of a chance than he or she might get in… More
Announcing the 2014 PEN/Bingham Prize Winner!
And the winner is . . . Shawn Vestal for "Godforsaken Idaho." More
Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Books with any kind of diversity are disproportionately challenged versus books by and about straight white males. More
Three Poems from Star Dust
You are the ruin whose arm encircles the young woman / at the posthumous bar, before your death. More
Two Poems from Desire
We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed. More
Ellen West
—Is it bitter? Does her soul / tell her / that she was an idiot ever to think / anything / material wholly could satisfy? More
Hundreds Rally in New York for Release of Ilham Tohti
"Tohti is exactly the kind of influential moderate the Chinese government should have courted in their professed efforts to build social harmony,” said Dominic Moran, Director of Free Expression… More
PEN American Center Names Shawn Vestal Winner of Prestigious Bingham Prize
PEN American Center conferred the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for Debut Fiction on Shawn Vestal for 'Godforsaken Idaho.' More
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