An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Edward Salem
Translating can make a story overly accessible in a way that’s patronizing. I’d rather have the reader experience the unfamiliarity of being in a foreign place. More
An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Cal Shook
something I hope readers might hold onto is the current of agency that runs through this story, even if the woman at its center seems often adrift. More
An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Patch Kirschenbaum
It can sometimes be remarkably difficult as a fiction writer to escape the feeling that you are writing into the abyss. More
An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner Emma Shannon
There’s no real reason for things to happen, they just happen in whatever spontaneous order they happen in. What makes these things important is the meaning we assign to… More
An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner Yasmin Majeed
While writing, I was reckoning with my own feelings of powerlessness and anger, but above all I wanted to honor the long history of political resistance in Pakistan. More
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Amber Caron
On August 22, Catapult will publish PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017, the inaugural edition of an anthology celebrating outstanding new fiction writers published by literary magazines around… More