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Our Town Downtown: Q & A with Larry Siems, Director of Freedom to Write and International Programs
Our Town Downtown, May 28, 2007—In 1921, two years after the First World War, British writers (C. A. Dawson Scott and John Galsworthy) founded the first PEN (poets, playwrights,… More
Blood Beats, Vol. 1
sampled slips remixed(TESTING, TESTING, 1, 2, TESTING) Hip-hop is America. Its only real crime is being so much so. It boils “mainstream” standards and practices down to their essences,… More
Half of a Yellow Sun
Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much… More
Rereading Saul Bellow
[2000] The Adventures of Augie March (1953) The transformation of the novelist who published Dangling Man in 1944 and The Victim in 1947 into the novelist who published The Adventures… More
Resolution on Iraqi Refugee Crisis
Noting with profound concern the grave and growing refugee crisis precipitated by the US-led intervention in Iraq and exacerbated by the rise of terrorism and sectarian violence. More
At 73rd PEN Congress, Focus Is on PEN in Africa, Iraqi Writers & Linguistic Rights
During the first week of July, PEN held its historic International Congress in Dakar, Senegal, marking the first time in 40 years and only the second time in its… More
PEN Hails Release of Tunisian Writer Who Denounced Torture
PEN American Center hailed the release this week of Mohammed Abbou, an Internet writer, lawyer, and human rights activist who was arrested on March 1, 2005, for an article… More
Season of Ice
1In the beginning there was snow. Torrents of tiny flakes blew in off the lake, pricked my skin before they melted on my hands and face and tongue. I… More
Absolver of Sing Sing
FADE IN:INT. TED’S CELL—DAYTEDDY PEDDLETON exits when the gate opens. He’s visibly shattered emotionally.START CREDITSON THE GALLERYTed moves toward the exit; WATUSI and another prisoner from their cells make… More
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