PEN Members Reading at WORD Bookstore
New and longtime members Jonathan Dee, Jennifer Gilmore, Ben Greenman, Leigh Newman, and Joan Silber read from their recent works, including once piece composed entirely of book blurbs. More
Earl Lovelace Reads from Is Just a Movie
Earl Lovelace reads from his novel Is Just a Movie at the Opening Night Reading of PEN's 2013 World Voices Festival. More
An Excerpt from A Time to Dance
“God is born, at different times, in different places, with different names./ He dances in heaven as Shiva, creator of universes; / He lived on earth as Buddha, human… More
Fadwa Touqan Will Do the Tango No More
"If your love has died / Do not grieve / Laugh at love / And deceive with laughter / An unyielding sorrow." To be honest, we had to control… More
An Evening with McSweeney’s
McSweeney’s contributors read excerpts from their translations in McSweeney’s Issue 42—an ambitious experiment that took twelve stories through six phases of translation in a variety of languages, granting each… More
From the Arhcives: A Time for Everything, Karl Ove Knausgaard
She realized that living was just what it was not. That a will of its own was just what it did not have. It was dead and blind and… More
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