Public Lives/Private Lives
LaborMy handwriting is rough, a prisoner’s scriptedletter, the cropped fields and your winter handsfolding into my pockets for lack of gloves.I could go in any direction in this field… More
Horsley, U.K.’s Incorrigible Memoirist, Finds Advocates at PEN
Sebastian Horsley, the British bad-boy memoirist accused of moral turpitude and possible fashion crimes, hopes to participate next month in the PEN American Center's World Voices Festival in New… More
PEN Rallies Behind Ousted Author
When it comes to publicity, being denied entry into the United States may be the best thing that ever happened to Sebastian Horsley, right, unless you count being hung… More
Writers’ Group Appeals U.S. Exclusion of UK Author
NEW YORK — An advocacy group for writers appealed to U.S. officials Monday to review the exclusion of a British author whose most recent book chronicles his… More
PEN Lobbies to Get Horsley Allowed Into the Country
The PEN American Center is trying to get Sebastian Horsley allowed on U.S. soil. The British artist, who wrote the memoir Dandy in the Underworld, was barred from entering… More
PEN World Voices Festival
The PEN American Center kicked off its annual World Voices Festival Thursday at a luncheon aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary 2. This year's theme will be public life… More
Rushdie and McEwan Head World Voice Festival Line-up
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The international writers group PEN announced participants and programs for its annual World Voices Festival of International Literature on Thursday, featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan,… More
Waves Through the Book World
Cunard, the British cruise company, has joined with the PEN American Center, the writers’ group, to create a book club on the high seas. Cunard, which is donating $70,000… More
Etgar Keret & George Saunders
I was amazed by your stories, by the quality and quantity of imagination, and the unbelievable overflow of ideas. So I wanted to ask a question that’s probably unfair.… More
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