2012 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerE.L. DoctorowThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence,… More
2012 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
WinnerVanessa Veselka, Zazen The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great… More
Middletown
Anyway, he was magnificent. The first expressive gesture. From that little curl of the toes to all of the world’s bibles and languages, it’s just a matter of time.… More
2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize
Inaugural Award WinnerSusan Nussbaum, for her novel Good Kings Bad KingsThe Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to… More
Ivory Black
The interior eye / Opposite watching’s touch / In what is black white / Is by accident / The eye detaches / As it slips from itself / What… More
Through the Yellow Hour
Maude stands in the entrance, wearing a blue bonnet on her head, as well as a gas mask, a large backpack worn in the front, boots. She also wears… More
Kathryn L. Pringle: Two Poems
and tracks were laid / and trains were running / and the town was divided // people who were family / people who were friends / people who were… More
Selected Poems from The Undertaker’s Daughter
Terrified at a reading to read / poems about my fears & shames, // a voice in me said: Just / open your mouth. Now // I read about… More
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
A lot of fault-finding non-Catholics run around saying that Catholics believe the Pope is infallible whenever he speaks. This is untrue. The Pope is infallible on only certain occasions,… More
1963 Literary Award Winner
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Archibald Colquhoun, The Viceroys by Federico de Roberto (Harcourt Brace) More
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