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Philip Roth: 2013 Literary Service Award Remarks

Some of whom I met and spoke with were selling cigarettes at a streetcorner kiosk, others were welding a wrench at the public water works, others spent their days on bicycles delivering buns to...
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Sonia Sotomayor: The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

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Top PEN Prize to Honor Jailed Turkish Translator Ayşe Berktay

PEN American Center named Ayşe Berktay, a translator, writer, and activist in Turkey, as the recipient of its 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award.

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An Excerpt from A Time to Dance

BY Padma Venkatraman
May 21, 2013

“God is born, at different times, in different places, with different names./ He dances in heaven as Shiva, creator of universes; / He lived on earth as Buddha, human incarnation of compassion; / And as you can see, He moves within you. / Now, please, come down, little one.”