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Oscar Hokeah Binds Together the Threads of Native American Experience in His Debut Novel Calling for a Blanket Dance

featureMarch 14, 2023

Hokeah Was One of Two Writers of Native Heritage to Receive Book Prizes at the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony By Suzanne Trimel (NEW YORK)—  Oscar Hokeah writes fiction grounded… More

Author Morgan Talty Welcomes New Son and PEN America Literary Award

InterviewMarch 9, 2023

Author Morgan Talty won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a debut short story collection days after his wife gave birth to their first child. More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Monica Youn

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By: Saeri Plagmann | March 9, 2023

The poem doesn’t live for me until it reaches the mind of the reader, as if the poem is a musical composition and the reader is both the musician… More

From Movie Star to Book Translator, Molly Ringwald Makes a Splash (In Pink) at the PEN America Literary Awards

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By: Suzanne Trimel | March 8, 2023

(NEW YORK)— Books aside, some of the chatter among the literary and publishing crowd at PEN America’s Literary Awards ceremony last Thursday night zeroed in on a surprise guest… More

‘Literature lasts’: Erika Dickerson-Despenza basks in career achievement award

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By: Lisa Tolin | March 6, 2023

For Erika Dickerson-Despenza, receiving the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award meant something special – an honor for words on the page. More

Percival Everett

Genre-Defying Author Percival Everett Takes Top PEN America Literary Award

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By: Lisa Tolin | March 3, 2023

Percival Everett’s body of work has been called many things — experimental, idiosyncratic, “gleefully unhinged” — and perhaps most frequently, prolific. “It’s a tasteless thing to do, but I… More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with De’Shawn Charles Winslow

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By: Alejandro Heredia | February 23, 2023

I wanted to show what lengths people would go to just to conceal truths: a child’s queerness, an addiction, hypocrisy. More

Derrick Barnes Calls Canceling School Visits Cowardly

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Award-winning author Derrick Barnes’ school visits to Alabama were canceled after the superintendent called him a “controversial guy.”  More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Lamya H

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By: Sabir Sultan | February 9, 2023

Finding queer Muslim community taught me it was possible to live. More

Julia Cameron

Julia Cameron Is Still Showing the Way

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It has been more than 30 years since Julia Cameron published The Artist’s Way, and she's adding some new tools to her morning pages and artist dates. More

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