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James Risen Subpoenaed over Source for Book
PEN American Center today expressed concern over reports that Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist has been issued a subpoena in an effort to compel him to reveal confidential… More
Horacio Castellanos Moya: Senselessness
Translated from the Spanish by Katherine SilverKatherine Silver is the recipient of a 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant for her translation of Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness (New Directions, 2008). CHAPTER… More
Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China
22. Food FantasiesFourteen rolled a couple of cigarettes with the tobacco from the butts I had gleaned, and I watched as Number Six and Number Nine took on the… More
Pamuk Prosecutor Arrested, Charged in Plot
Kemal Kerincsiz, the lawyer who tried to prosecute Orhan Pamuk, Hrant Dink, Elif Shafak, and several other writers for “insulting Turkishness,” has been arrested with 32 others following an… More
Mother of Jailed Writer to Sit With First Lady at Bush Speech
Blanca Gonzalez, whose son, Normando Hernández González, has become an international symbol of Cuban human-rights abuses, is scheduled to join Laura Bush in the first lady's gallery tonight when… More
Activist Hu Jia Arrested in China: Number of Jailed Writers Rises to 42
The arrest last week of high-profile activist and blogger Hu Jia in Beijing is raising concerns that the Chinese government may be ratcheting up its efforts to control internal… More
Chinese Police Preventing Prominent Chinese Writers from Meeting in Beijing
Chinese police have detained two writers and issued warnings and posted guards outside the homes of dozens of others to prevent the Independent Chinese PEN Center from holding an… More
Jonathan Ames Reads from FBI E-mails, Guantánamo Bay
Jonathan Ames, author and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, reads from a selection of e-mails written by FBI personnel describing life at Guantánamo Bay, as part of the 2009… More
Sidney Offit: Memories of Norman Mailer
My memories of Norman Mailer drift back more than forty years to an evening we shared at one of the PEN cocktail parties. Held at the Pierre Hotel, these… More
Interview with Patricia Prewitt
QUESTION: What was the spark that made you begin writing in prison? When did it occur? PATRICIA PREWITT: When I was sent to prison in April of 1986, my five… More