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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.
In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. 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.
PEN America 11: Make Believe launches on October 26. >> Order today! |
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ISSUE 11: MAKE BELIEVE
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What do you believe? PEN America 11: Make Believe examines—through fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and conversations—the question of belief in all (or many) of its forms. Alesksandar Hemon, Cynthia Ozick, Lynne Tillman, and others imagine books they wish they (or someone else) had written; Sigrid Nunez invents an orphanage full of “rapture children”; and Rivka Galchen pretends to be Lydia Davis and Peter Altenberg. Plus new fiction from Brian Evenson and Roxana Robinson; poetry by Reza Baraheni, Marie Ponsot, and Liu Xiaobo; notes from a manifesto by David Shields—and much, much more.
>> Order now
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Issue 11 Table of Contents
Issue 11 Masthead
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FORUM: MAKE BELIEVE
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1 Imagine a book you wish had been written, either by yourself or by someone
else, living or dead, real or imaginary;
or
2 Tell us something you believe about books—their power or lack of it,
how they change the world or don’t, what they’ve done for you or failed
to do.
>> Go to the forum
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