2010 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerMarshall Jon Fisher for A Terrible Splendor (Three Rivers Press/Crown)The PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. The award is open to books of a… More
2010 PEN/Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature
WinnerEsteban Bedoya for El Apocalipsis según BenedictoThe PEN/Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature was established by a $100,000 grant from Lily Tuck to assist with the translation of Paraguayan literature… More
2010 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerAnne Carson for her translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by EuripidesThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations… More
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Glengarry Highland’s leads, you’re sending Roma out. Fine. He’s a good man. We know what he is. He’s fine. All I’m saying, you look at the board, he’s… More
Marilyn Hacker: Selected Poems
Lines that grapple doubt, written because of the beloved :// when grief subsides, what survives the loss of the beloved ? More
An Interview with Don DeLillo
Sinclair Lewis called for 'a literature worthy of our vastness.' A novelist tends to feel this spread and breadth in his fingertips (or not) and I’ve tried to bring… More
An Oresteia
What are you waiting for? You have your / orders–strew the ground with fabrics, / now! / Make his path crimsoncovered! / purplepaved! redsaturated! More
Irrawaddy Flowing on the Road
Irrawaddy Flowing on the RoadI won't cry, Mother.On the nightsI closed all the doorsTurned off all the lightsAnd slept quietlyI sighed asking myselfWhat mistakes had I made.The first dayNext… More
Me and My Dreams, Part 1Me and My Dreams, Part 1
Saturday, December 22, 2007The night I got to Singapore my dreams occurred again. It had been a while since I had had these dreams while I was in Burma.I… More