2014 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerMark Fainaru-Wada & Steve Fainaru, League of Denial (Crown Archetype)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be of a… More
2014 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WinnerJames Wolcott, Critical Mass (Doubleday)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The winner… More
2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerLouise ErdrichThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a living American author whose scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or… More
PEN Honors Ilham Tohti with PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
PEN American Center announced today that it will confer the 2014 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award upon imprisoned Uyghur economist and writer Ilham Tohti. PEN hopes that… More
The Silent Woman
I stuck the knifepoint into one of the spaces between my black-gloved fingers. Then into the space between the fingers next to it . . . Several men tensely… More
Two Poems from Metaphysical Dog
In a labyrinth of blankets in the garage // at seven / with a neighbor boy // you learned abasement // learned amazed that what must be / obliterated… More
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