PEN Literary Award Winners Announced
The 2014 PEN Literary Awards were announced Wednesday, with playwright David Rabe and critic James Wolcott among the winners. More
2014 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an Emerging American Playwright
WinnerLaura MarksThe PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize three playwrights for the following honors: a specially commissioned art object will be presented to a master American dramatist,… More
2014 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerDonald MarguliesThe PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize three playwrights for the following honors: a specially commissioned art object will be presented to a master American dramatist,… More
Recommended Reading: Literary Sports Writing
These works of literary sports writing discuss much more than games. Award judges Joel Drucker, Chad Harbach, and Jackie MacMullan have chosen the following nine titles for the PEN/ESPN… More
Recommended Reading: Art of Biography
Our judges James Atlas, Lisa Cohen, and Wendy Gimbel have chosen eight titles for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for a distinguished biography published in 2013. Get lost in… More
Recommended Reading: Diversity in Literature
Open Book judges Catherine Chung, Randa Jarrar, and Monica Youn selected titles that offer fresh glimpses into diverse cultures and introduce some startling new voices, writing both from within… More
May 5th PEN Literary Gala Honors Salman Rushdie with PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to Receive Inaugural PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Digital Freedom Award More
James Joyce: Past Imperfect (1800-1882)
Consequently for him, as time went by, the past was more immediate than the present, and became the chosen playground of his fiction. More
Epic Endeavors
In the twentieth century alone, the Amphitryon myth has been adapted by a French novelist, two German playwrights, an opera composer, an anti-Nazi filmmaker, and Cole Porter. Have we… More
The Forest Unseen
Indeed, the truth of the forest may be more clearly and vividly revealed by the contemplation of a small area than it could be by donning ten-league boots, covering… More
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