2015 PEN Longlists Revealed
PEN American Center announced the longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Finalists include Teju Cole, National Book Award winner Phil Klay, journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, and Claudia Rankine, who… More
Phil Klay, Leslie Jamison among nominees for awards given by PEN American Center
National Book Award winner Phil Klay and the author of Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick, Cynthia Bond, are among the nominees on the longlist of awards handed out… More
Klay, Rankine and Bond nominated for PEN awards
The PEN American Center today announced nominees for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Among the 89 titles are Phil Klay’s “Redeployment,” a National Book Award winner, Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen:… More
How to Win at Picking a Diverse Judging Panel: PEN Literary Awards
It should be no surprise if you’ve been reading Book Riot that we care about diversity in our bookish entities — libraries, publishing houses, foundations, awards, trade shows, etc.… More
Meet the Judges for the 2015 PEN/Fusion Prize
John Freeman, Roxane Gay, and Cristina Henríquez will judge the new $10,000 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize. More
2014 PEN Poetry in Translation Award: Four Questions for the Winners
"For me, there’s something about that in-between genre—part diary, part poem, part letter to the world—that felt both fascinating and important." More
The World’s Greatest Fisherman
She couldn’t help notice, when he paid up, that he had a good-sized wad of money in a red rubber band like the kind that holds bananas together in… More
Three Poems from Star Dust
You are the ruin whose arm encircles the young woman / at the posthumous bar, before your death. More
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