from The Arab
It doesn’t matter how many times I tell her—she’s simply incapable of cooking just a few things when she has visitors. More
from Thirteen Months of Sunrise
I don’t care how they take my body...What can this skinny, tired, and sickly body give them? What flames can it quench? More
from The Remainder
Someone has to die and it falls on me to find them, body after body, ever since my first unforgettable Sunday cadaver... More
from Edinburgh Notebook
In the desert, my love, in the desert I saw an elephant born. Its mother thought it dead, and in her desperate rage, she dragged it with her trunk... More
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On this episode of #thePENpod, we speak with Uli Beutter Cohen, creator of @SbwyBookreview, about her new book, which collects over 170 interviews from the acclaimed social media movement that highlights books and the people who cherish them. https://bit.ly/3FTqNak
Would love to see you join us for this final reading from the @PENamerica Emerging Voices Fellows on October 27+28. The virtual readings will air 5-6 PM PST each night, and each reading will include personal intros from our mentors. @pen_ev @kaokaliayang https://pen.org/event/2021-emerging-voices-final-reading
As this year's Nobel Peace Prize acknowledges the unprecedented crackdown on independent media by authoritarian regimes, PEN America's @PSadovskaya2020 draws attention to the trend of “foreign agent” laws that attempt to silence media & journalists: https://bit.ly/3lIB6pO.
