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On Music, Writing, and Being Moved
Saturday mornings in my early ’70s, Alabama childhood home were weekly cleaning time. My mother would turn the oldies station on the radio, break out the mop bucket, cleaning… More
District Court Strikes Down National Security Letter Provision
PEN American Center welcomed U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero’s decision striking down the amended Patriot Act's National Security Letter (NSL) provision. The ACLU challenged the law in Doe… More
Treatment Kind and Fair
D e c i d i n g t o B e a D o c t o r —C h o o s i n g a n… More
The Higher Power of Lucky
Lucky Trimble crouched in a wedge of shade behind the Dumpster. Her ear near a hole in the paint-chipped wall of Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum and… More
Meredith Tax Pays Tribute to Grace Paley
Meredith Tax issued the following statement this afternoon about the death of Grace Paley. August 23, 2007, New York, New York—Grace was one of my closest friends. There are probably… More
PEN Welcomes Release of Haleh Esfandiari in Iran; Awaits News of Kian Tajbakhsh
PEN American Center welcomed today’s release on bail of Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East Program for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and also a… More
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
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