Home > Membership > Responses | | 2006 YEAR-IN-REVIEW MEMBERSHIP FORUM RESPONSES PEN Members: Participate in our Year-in-Review Online Membership Forum Responses to the Forum are listed below. Joan Acocella Location: New York City Currently working on: A book of essays, Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints Best book this year: R. K. Narayan, The Guide >> More Robert L. Beisner Location: Washington, DC Best book this year: Roger Angell, Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion Favorite literary web site: www.aldaily.com >> More Sallie Bingham Location: Santa Fe, NM Favorite literary web site: Poets & Writers Best literary event: Reading by Arthur Sze in the National Forest >> More Charles Blackstone Location: Chicago Best book this year: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami Favorite blog: misssnark.blogspot.com >> More William Borden Location: Royse City, Texas Best book this year: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, Javier Marias Best new writer: John Salter >> More Susan Butler Location: Lake Wales, Florida Published this year: My Dear Mr. Stalin, The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin Best book this year: Snow by Pamuk >> More Jane Ciabattari Location: Sag Harbor, NY Best book this year: Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Blog: Critical Mass >> More Priscilla Cogan Location: Upton, Mass Best book this year: The Kite Runner Best literary event: National Storytelling Festival >> More Joan Crowell Location: Quogue, NY 11969 Best new writer: Claire Messud Best translation: People on the Bridge, Wislawa Szymborska >> More Alice Denham Location: New York CIty Published this year: Sleeping with Bad Boys: Literary NY >> More Tony D'Souza Location: Nicaragua Best new writer: Van Jordan, Macnolia Best literary event: The New Yorker Spring Books party >> More Clayton Eshleman Location: Ypsilanti, Michigan Favorite blog: Ron Silliman's and Pierre Joris's blogs Best literary event: Cecilia Vicuna at The Poetry Project >> More Lewis Frumkes >> More Carol Gelderman Location: New Orleans, LA Currently working on: Book on 1876 election told from an unusual perspective Published this year: Henry Ford the Wayward Capitalist >> More Daniela Gioseffi Location: Brooklyn Heights, NYC Best translation: Luigi Bonaffini's translation of Luciano Troisio, Oriental Parnassus Favorite literary web site: www.PoetsUSA.com >> More Thomas Glynn Location: Brooklyn, NY Best new writer: Donovan Hohn Best translation: The Illiad, translated by Robert Fagles >> More Rigoberto Gonzalez Location: Queens, NY Best book this year: Ada Limon's collection of poetry, Lucky Wreck Favorite literary web site: Poetry Daily >> More Lois Gordon Location: New York City Best book this year: The Emperor's Children Best new writer: Merisha Pessil >> More Maya Gottfried Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn Best new writer: Josh Malerman Favorite literary web site: Bookslut.com >> More Allan Graubard Location: New York & Washington, DC Favorite literary web site: Exquisite Corpse Best book this year: Blood From the Sky, by Piotr Rawicz >> More Jason Grote Location: Brooklyn, NY 11238 Blog: jasongrote.blogspot.com Best new writer: Young Jean Lee >> More Aaron Hamburger Location: New York Published this year: Faith for Beginners Best book this year: Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart >> More Minfong Ho Location: Ithaca, NY Best new writer: Yiyun Li Best literary event: Hong Kong Literary Festival >> More Patricia Spears Jones Location: New York City Published this year: Femme du Monde (Tia Chuca Press) Most important literary news: That the Democrats won back the Congress. >> More Steve Katz Location: Denver, Colorado Best book this year: Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman Best translation: The Lament of the Linnet, Anna Maria Ortese >> More Harvey J. Kaye Location: Green Bay, WI Currently working on: The Four Freedoms and the Promise of America Best book this year: Arthur Schlesinger Jr's The Age of Roosevelt (3 vols) >> More Brad Kessler Location: Vermont Published this year: Birds In Fall, a novel Years in PEN: One >> More Philip Kimball Location: Lawrence, Kansas Currently working on: a novel, max weber in oklahoma Best literary event: readings by contributors to coal city review >> More Steven Kroll Location: New York City Best book this year: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Best literary event: PEN International Festival >> More Lolette Kuby Location: Toronto Best book this year: Poison (Patrick Suskind) Best literary event: PEN World Voices >> More Michael Lally Location: New Jersey Best new writer: Jose Funes Favorite blog: www.ronsilliman.blogspot.com >> More Robert Lima Location: State College, PA Published this year: Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama Best work in translation: Ruíz Zafón, Carlos: The Shadow of the Wind >> More Deena Linett Location: Montclair, New Jersey Published this year: Woman Crossing a Field, BOA Editions, Ltd., 2006 Best book this year: Janette Turner Hospital's Due Preparations for the Plague >> More Evander Lomke Location: NYC Best book this year: Donald Bogle; Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams Favorite literary web site: Tantmieux >> More Dandi Mackall Location: West Salem, OH Favorite blog: Miss Snark Best literary event: BEA >> More Nancy Mairs Location: Tucson, AZ Best book this year: Cormac McCarthy, The Road Best translation: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami >> More C.M. Mayo Location: Washington, DC and Mexico City, Mexico Currently working on: A novel set in 19th-century Mexico Best book this year: Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe >> More Joseph Mazur Location: Marlboro, VT Best book this year: History of Love by Nicole Krauss Best literary event: PEN Literary Awards >> More Gregory McNamee Location: USA Published this year: Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food Blog: blogs.britannica.com/blog/main >> More James Munves Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada Best book this year: Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman Best translation: Collected Poems by Wyslawa Szymborska >> More Ellen Pall Location: NYC Best book this year: Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg Favorite literary web site: www.DebbiesIdea.com >> More Paul Pines Location: Glens Falls, NY Currently working on: The "Afterword" to my book, My Brother's Madness Years in PEN: 20 >> More James Raimes Location: Brooklyn Best book this year: Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go Best new writer: Jose Saramago >> More Edward J. Renehan Jr. Location: Wickford, RI Blog: renehan.typepad.com Best literary blog: www.maudnewton.com/blog >> More Richard Rhodes Location: Half Moon Bay, California Published this year: John James Audubon: The Making of an American Best translation this year: Anatoly Chernyaev, My Six Years With Gorbachev >> More Peter Rock Location: Portland, Oregon Published this year: The Unsettling; a collection of short stories Best translation: Roberto Bolano's Last Evenings on Earth >> More Thaddeus Rutkowski Location: Manhattan Published this year: Tetched: A Novel PEN events attended: Literature of Color panel discussion >> More Esmeralda Santiago Location: Katonah, NY Best new writer: Uzodinma Iweala Best translation: Suite Francaise >> More Mary Saracino Location: Denver, CO Best book this year: The Hummingbird's Daughter Published this year: The Singing of Swans >> More Sarah Schulman Location: New York City Best book this year: Veronica by Mary Gaitskill Best new writer: My students, Patrick Keifer and Angelina Price >> More Marian Schwartz Location: Austin, Texas Published this year: A translation of Ruben Gallego's White on Black Best PEN event downloaded: Anna Politkovskaya tribute >> More Anna Shapiro Location: New York City/London Best book this year: Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell Most important news: Susan Sontag's death >> More Susan Shapiro Location: NYC Best new writer: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by David Goodwillie Favorite literary web site: Salon.com >> More Enid Shomer Location: Tampa, Florida Best book this year: Pastoralia by George Saunders Best translation: Snow, by Orhan Pamuk >> More Diane Simmons Location: NY/NJ Best new writer: Cliff Chase-Winkie Best literary event: Slam at the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe >> More Leora Skolkin-Smith Location: New York City Best book this year: Efriede Jelinek's Greed Favorite literary web site: www.readysteadybook.com >> More Stephanie Spinner Location: Sherman, CT Currently working on: Damosel (YA novel about The Lady of the Lake) Best new writer: Marina Lewycka >> More Dana Spiotta Location: New York Best book this year: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Best new writer: Jess Walter >> More Jayne Lyn Stahl Location: California Currently working on: A stage play, The Battle for Ulysses Best literary event: The Nation anniversary party >> More Catherine Stine Location: New York City Blog: catherinestine.livejournal.com Best book this year: Hell by Kathryn Davis >> More Milan Stitt Location: New York Currently working on: Finishing rewrite of new play Years in PEN: More than 25 >> More Terese Svoboda Location: NYC Published this year: Tin God, U. of Nebraska Press. A novel. Best book this year: Antoine Volodine's Minor Angels >> More Sheila Kohler Tucker Location: New York Best translation: The Rings of Saturn Best literary event: A reading at KGB given by Amy Hempel >> More Wendy Walker Location: New York City Best book this year: Per Olov Enquist, The March of the Musicians Best new writer: William Gillespie >> More Wallis Wilde-Menozzi >> More Michele Wucker Location: New York City Best book this year: What the Body Remembers, Shauna Singh Baldwin Published this year: LOCKOUT >> More Rafi Zabor Location: Brooklyn, NY Best translation: Casanova in Bolzano, by Sandor Marai Best literary event: Orhan Pamuk at Town Hall >> More Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm Location: Delaware Best new writer: Pranay Gupte Best literary event: Kracow International Book Fair >> More • Best Books of 2006 Andino Acevedo González: ¡Qué Tiempos Aquellos! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun Chris Adrian: The Children's Hospital Roger Angell: Season Ticket: A Baseball Companion Anne Applebaum: Gulag Shauna Singh Baldwin: What the Body Remembers Helen Barolini: Their Other Side: Six American Women & The Lure of Italy John Berendt: City of Falling Angels Donald Bogle: Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams Wolfgang Büscher: Deutschland, Eine Reise Grace Cavalieri: Water on the Sun Bill Clinton: My Life Anderson Cooper: Dispatches From the Edge Wade David: One River Kathryn Davis: The Thin Place Kathryn Davis: Hell Stephen Duncombe: Dream Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter Deborah Eisenberg: Twilight of the Superheroes Per Olov Enquist: The March of the Musicians Richard Feynman: Lectures on Physics Mary Gaitskill: Veronica Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters Lyndall Gordon: Charlotte Bronte and Private Life of Henry James Günter Grass: Mein Jahrhundert Vasily Grossman: Life and Fate David Hewson: The Villa of Mysteries Janette Turner Hospital: Due Preparations for the Plague Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go Efriede Jelinek: Greed Elizabeth Kolbert: Field Notes from a Catastrophe Nicole Krauss: History of Love Ada Limon: Lucky Wreck Sandor Marai: Embers Javier Marias: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me Cormac McCarthy: The Road Larry McMurtry: Crazy Horse Claire Messud: The Emperor's Children Caroline Moorehead, ed.: Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn Haurki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman R. K. Narayan: The Guide Maureen Owen: Eroison's Pull Orhan Pamuk: Snow Jodi Picoult: Vanishing Act Sue Prideaux: biography of Edvard Munch Nahid Rachlin: Persian Girls Piotr Rawicz: Blood From the Sky George Saunders: Pastoralia James Schuyler: Collected Poems Joanna Scott: Everybody Loves Someone David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day Harvey Shapiro: The Sights Along the Harbor Gary Shteyngart: Absurdistan Joan Silbur: Ideas of Heaven Patrick Suskind: Poison Colm Toibin: The Master Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird's Daughter Antoine Volodine: Minor Angels Paul West: Tea With Osiris • Most Important Literary News of 2006 Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize Grace Schulman leaving The Nation as Poetry Editor Democrats winning back the Congress Death of Susan Sontag The James Frey story NBCC Book Award for Memoir to Francine duPlessix Gray; for fiction to E. L. Doctorow That Ira Cohen survived his second minor stroke and keeps writing wonderful poems. Death of William Styron The growing influence of the litblogs The Interpreter of Maladies being named the featured title for "One Book, One Chicago" The new Big Book award for Russian literature The OJ Simpson book story Peter Hessler being a finalist for the National Book Award The destruction of the libraries of Iraq Michiko Kakutani's piece on fictitious nonfiction The acquittal of Orhan Pamuk Poets and Writers Magazine's 20th anniversary NWU's win for rights The murder of Anna Politskovskaya Plagiarism • 2006 Best New Writers Frank X. Black Susan Brown Ivar Ekeland Ann Fessler Nikki Finney Elizabeth Frost Jose Funes William Gillespies David Goodwillie Reyna Grande Pranay Gupte Mark Haddon Donovan Hohn Uzodinma Iweala Terri Jentz Van Jordan Patrick Keifer Benjamin Kunkel Young Jean Lee James Lewelling Marina Lewycka Heller Levinson Yiyun Li Josh Malerman Nina Marie Martinez Claire Messud Daniel Thomas Moran Merisha Pessil Jodi Piccoult Angelina Price Robert Rosenberg Sheldon Rusch John Salter Jose Saramago Matt Shenoda Antoine Volodine Jess Walter Sarah Waters Cliff Chase-Winkie Matthew Zapruder • 2006 Best Works in Translation David Albahari: Gotz and Meyer, trans. Ellen Elias-Bursac Yehuda Amichai: Open Closed Open Jakob Arjouni: Idiots Roberto Bolano: Last Evenings on Earth Gregoire Bouillier: The Mystery Guest Alfredo Castaneda: Book of Hours / Libro de horas, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden Anatoly Chernyaev: My Six Years With Gorbachev Gerardo Deniz: Poemas / Poems, trans. Monica de la Torre Per Olov Enquist: The March of the Musicians Nazim Hikmet: Human Landscapes From My Country, trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk Homer: The Illiad, trans. Robert Fagles Homer: The Illiad, trans. Stanley Lombardo Violette Leduc: The Lady and The Little Fox Bernard-Henri Levy: American Vertigo Sandor Marai: Casanova in Bolzano, trans. George Szirtes Javier Marias: Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore, trans. Phillip Gabriel Irene Nemirovsky: Suite Francaise Anna Maria Ortese: The Lament of the Linnet Orhan Pamuk: Snow Cesare Pavese: The Moon and the Bonfires, trans. R. W. Flint Leonardo Sciascia: The Day of the Owl Wislawa Szymborska: People on the Bridge Uwe Timm: Morenga, trans. Breon Mitchell Luciano Troisio: Oriental Parnassus, trans. 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