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Silver Sparrow
My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist. He was already married ten years when he first clamped eyes on my mother. In 1968, she was working at the gift-wrap… More
Interview: Arch Tait
PEN: What are some of the challenges of taking a best-selling, well-known work from its native language and translating it for a foreign audience?It’s less a challenge than a… More
The New Jim Crow
Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy. Cotton’s family tree tells the story… More
The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am
I have always liked to finish things. Ear-muffs, winter, spring, summer, autumn. Epsilon’s working life. Get it over with. And this impatience had consequences when Epsilon gave me an… More
Last Journalist Released
The last remaining Cuban journalist in prison, Habana Press director Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet Hernández, has now been released. More
Interview: Ludmila Ulitskaya
After giving it much thought, I ascribe the success of the book to the fact that it contains the answer to a question society has been struggling with but… More
PEN Appeal: Noel López Olguín
April 4, 2011 Lic. Felipe De Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos Residencia Oficial de los Pinos Casa Miguel Alemán Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, C.P. 11850 Distrito Federal, México Fax: (+ 52… More
Play It That Way
Midway through the novel Mildred Pierce, the title character takes her famously awful daughter Veda to audition for a new piano teacher. Charlie Hannen has been recommended by some… More
Journalist Kidnapped and Beaten
PEN International is alarmed by the recent kidnapping and beating of journalist Seymur Khaziyev. More
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