Life Is Messy, Writing Is Messy: An Interview with Danielle Evans
I sometimes wonder what critics would say if they couldn’t mention race until the second paragraph. It’s a shame, because the book is really about so many other things.… More
2011 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerGeorge Dohrmann for Play Their Hearts Out (Ballantine Books)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be of a biographical,… More
2011 ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
Inaugural WinnerRoger Angell2011 is the inaugural year of the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. This award is given to one living American or U.S.-based writer each… More
2011 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WinnerMark Slouka for Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations (Graywolf Press)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem… More
The Puppet Makers
The following is an excerpt from The Puppet Makers by Molly Crabapple, a 2011 PEN World Voices Festival participant. More
Three Poems
I admit, / I’m an unnecessarily handsome / knockabout, nightly drunk to no apparent / effect. But, it’s nice to be worried about. / It’s almost like being cared… More
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