PEN Appeal: Abdulaelah Haider Shaea
February 2, 2011 His Excellency General ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Saleh President Office of the President Sana’a Republic of Yemen Fax: + 967 127 4147 Mutaher Rashad al Masri Minister of the Interior Ministry of the Interior Sana’a Republic of Yemen Fax: +… More
Jonathan Lethem & Patti Smith
I would go to rummage sales or church bazaars and pick out books for pennies, for a quarter. I got a first edition Dickens with a green velvet cover… More
Lila Azam Zanganeh & Atiq Rahimi: Mother Tongue
LILA AZAM ZANGANEH: Atiq, you had written three novels in Persian, and then you switched from Persian to French for your most recent novel, The Patience Stone, and it… More
PEN World Voices Festival announces new director
The PEN World Voices Festival, which brings authors together for a multi-day, multi-venue festival across New York City, will be led by László Jakab Orsós, the PEN American Center… More
An Around the World Reading
The baldheaded man leapt to the stage at Joe’s Pub in Greenwich Village. Tommy Wieringa, a highly respected author from the Netherlands, chatted amiably with the largely American crowd… More
Living Next to the Enemy
In many countries that have been wracked by ethnic cleansing or a civil war, the victims of torture, and the people who tortured them, still live too close for… More
Global Voices at the PEN Festival
Salman Rushdie and Patti Smith were just two of the many literary stars who kicked off the 2010 Pen World Voices Festival at The 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry… More
Patti Smith On the Circuit
If you're on the benefit circuit these slightly humid days of May, one unexpected person you might run into on a more than regular basis is the singer-songwriter Patti… More
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