2007 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Philip Roth PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turning Machines (Knopf) Finalists Tony D’Souza, Whiteman (Harcourt) Katherine Min, Secondhand World (Knopf) PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction James… More
2008 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Nabokov Award for FictionCynthia Ozick, What Happened to the Baby PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeDalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco)Finalists:Joshua Ferris, Then We Come to an End (Little, Brown, & Co.) Alex Mindt, The… More
2009 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Nabokov AwardPhilip RothPEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for WritersDonald Ray Pollock, KnockemstiffPEN/Saul Bellow AwardCormac McCarthyPEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American… More
2010 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizePaul Harding, Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press)PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American FictionDon DeLilloPEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-CareerSusan ChoiPEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for… More
Good Kings, Bad Kings
One thing I didn’t remember to think about is nothing never happens around here. Some cars drove by, and maybe the drivers looked at me? But they didn’t look… More
Burning Ants
My brother Credence says people who leave are deluding themselves about what’s out there. I just think they’re cowards. Mr. Tofu Scramble says I should go anyway, that it’s… More
A Banned Books Wrap Up
This September, PEN American Center reached out to writers, editors, literary illuminati, and PEN staff to write about the banned books that matter to them most. Below you’ll find… More
Cosmopolitan Readers
The idea is that a novelist who is ambitious enough to want a global audience, and who does not want to be imprisoned by his or her own language,… More
On Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
The problem of Emma is the problem of desire. Her only métier is desire, and its top percent, love. Emma lusts for gratification through commodity and body and makes… More
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