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Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim will receive the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award at PEN America’s annual Literary Gala, which will be held April 25 at… More

Does someone want to silence us? Are we at war? Nothing is more exhilarating for a writer than to feel that simply putting pen to paper is an act… More

Master composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheimwill receive the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award at PEN America's annual Literary Gala on April 25 at the American Museum of Natural History… More

Stephen Sondheim's latest honor comes from literary and human rights organization PEN America.   The group announced Wednesday that the composer is this year's recipient of the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service… More

Stephen Sondheim has been awarded the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award — making him the first composer-lyricist to win it. The prize is given annually to a “critically acclaimed… More

IPG Signs New Distribution Agreement With Albert Whitman Independent Publishers Group (IPG) has signed an exclusive North American sales and distribution agreement with Chicago-based children’s publisher Albert Whitman & Company. On February 1,… More

The Duquesne University Press will shut down later this year, an “unexpected” decision that is already facing pushback from scholars. Timothy R. Austin, provost and vice president for academic affairs,… More

Everybody’s got a story. Four memoirs announced last week are particularly topical: Robert O’Neill, who says he killed Osama bin Laden, has a memoir due April 25. “The Operator” will cover… More

Paul Auster has some ideas about how to resist what he says is going to be a real assault on American society. We meet in the novelist’s Brooklyn brownstone the… More