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Vera Williams Reads Grace Paley’s Unity Statement
Vera Williams reads The Unity Statement at PEN's 2007 Tribute to Grace Paley. We are gathering at the Pentagon on November 17, 1980 because we fear for our lives. We… More
2007 Literary Awards: Janna Levin
Janna Levin, author of the novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf), accepts the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers at the 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony. Finalists for the… More
Sufjan Stevens Performs at PENultimate Lit
Sufjan Stevens performs "Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL;" "Barn Owl, Night Killer;" and "The Mistress Witch from Mcclure" or "The Mind That Knows Itself" at PENultimate Lit:… More
James Carroll Accepts the 2007 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
James Carroll, author of House of War (Houghton Mifflin), accepts the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award at the 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony. Finalists for the biennial award, which is given… More
Wesley Stace Performs at PENultimate Lit
Wesley Stace performs "My Favorite Angel;" "The Top of the Bottom;" and "Pandora" at PENultimate Lit: Music & Literature. More
2007 Literary Awards: Naomi Iizuka & A.R. Gurney
A.R. Gurney and Naomi Iizuka accept the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama at the 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony. The awards recognize a master American dramatist (Gurney) and an… More
Harryette Mullen Reads from Recyclopedia
Harryette Mullen, winner of a 2007 Beyond Margins Award, reads from Recyclopedia during a conversation with Erica Hunt. More
Peter Covino Accepts the 2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Peter Covino, author of the poetry collection Cut Off the Ears of Winter (New Issues), accepts the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ($5,000) at the 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony.… More
Philip Roth Accepts the 2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
Philip Roth accepts the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, which goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses… More
2007 Literary Awards: Diane Les Becquets
Diane Les Becquets, author of the forthcoming novel Genesis, to be published by Bloomsbury, accepts the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship at the 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony. The fellowship… More
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