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2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize

WinnerShawn Vestal, Godforsaken Idaho (Little A/New Harvest/Amazon Publishing)The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and… More

The Burglary

Electoral politics were manipulated to defeat candidates the director did not like. Even mild dissent, in the eyes of the FBI, could make an American worthy of being spied… More

Swell

There is yeast in the air as well / as sadness / I’ll lick the tears from / wherever they land / I just love / to get dressed… More

Into the Go-Slow

Cars flew by. The boy and the man both waved. The man cupped his hands to his mouth and yelled something that got lost to the wind. Cars passed… More

Sparta

Conrad imagined walking through the trees below: the leafy, springy duff, soft underfoot. The clean aromatic tang of balsam, flecks of sunlight scattered across the dim trunks. More