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PEN American Wins Amazon Grant
PEN American Center, the U.S. branch of the international literary and human rights group, announced yesterday that it has been awarded a twenty-five-thousand-dollar grant by Amazon. The money will… More
Amazon Awards PEN American Center $25K
Today Amazon.com, Inc. ((AMZN) awarded the PEN American Center a $25,000 grant to continue their work. The center will use the money to increase new media capabilities, and more… More
Pen Makes Appeal to Yale Press
PEN American Center has joined the controversy over a decision by Yale University Press to excise images of Muhammad from one of its new books and urged Yale to… More
This Sporting Life: Fish and bicycles
From the tottering Jenga tower of my thoughts, a few notions this week on tennis and on women and on men, on the blonde promise of smooth youth, on… More
2009 PEN Beyond Margins Award Winners Announced
Today the PEN American Center announced the winners of the 2009 PEN Beyond Margins Award. Honored for writing "outstanding books by writers of color," three authors will receive $1,000… More
PEN American Center Names New Director
The PEN American Center, the American branch of the international literary and human rights organization, has announced the appointment of Steven Isenberg, a lawyer and professor of literature, as… More
Detained Iranian Journalist Getting All the Press
Iran's government announced Tuesday that it would release 140 prisoners detained during the political unrest that wracked the country last month, but one now-notable name was not on the… More
Hearing For Muslim Barred by U.S.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday reversed a lower-court ruling that had allowed the government to bar a prominent Muslim scholar from entering the United States on… More
Global Writers and Filmmakers Call for Bahari’s Release
Nearly 300 of the world's most respected authors, filmmakers, and journalists have put their names to petitions this week calling on the Iranian government to release NEWSWEEK correspondent and… More
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