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PEN AMERICA BLOG
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For more from our editors and contributors, check out PEN America: A Blog for Writers and Readers, where you’ll find weekly posts, plus news and notes about what's going on in the literary world today. |
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"PEN America is an entrancing magazine: when it arrives, I fall helplessly into it, and am lost to everything else."
—Cynthia Ozick
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PEN’s semi-annual literary journal publishes fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir. It champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia.
PEN America is a finalist for a 2010 Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize.
Past contributors include Paul Auster, Michael Cunningham, Nikki Giovanni, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, John Edgar Wideman, and many others.
The latest issue is PEN America 12: Correspondences. >> Order today! |
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ISSUE 12: CORRESPONDENCES
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PEN America 12: Correspondences presents e-mail exchanges, letters, telegrams, epistolary fiction, and more. Sam Lipsyte writes to Barry Hannah, Siri Hustvedt writes to Scheherazade, and Paul LaFarge writes to Marcel Proust. Anne Carson searches letters from a lost brother and Robert Walser writes behind the walls of a sanitarium. Plus comics from Iran and Lebanon; fiction by Alain Mabanckou and Donald Ray Pollock; poetry by Billy Collins; and much, much more. >> Order now
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FORUM: CORRESPONDENCES
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1 Write the first paragraph of a letter you’d like to send either to another writer, living or dead, or to a fictional character.
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2 Describe your experience with the new technology of correspondence: Twitter, e-mail, Facebook, etc.
>> Go to the forum
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