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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 14: The Good Books. >> Order today! |
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ISSUE 14: THE GOOD BOOKS
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In The Good Books, over fifty writers—including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more—choose the works in translation they’d bring to a great global book swap. Also featured: talks by Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and other participants in the 1986 PEN Congress. Plus fiction, poetry, essays, and comics from around the world.
>> Order now
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Masthead
Table of Contents
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COMIC
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Book
by Yuichi Yokoyama
translated by Taro Nettleton
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FORUM: THE GOOD BOOKS
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More than fifty novelists, poets, translators, and editors participate in a virtual exchange of their favorite foreign-language books.
Below are some of the contributors to the forum:
Rabih Alameddine • Maurice Berger • Michael F. Moore • Srikanth Reddy • Terese Svoboda • David Shields
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FROM THE 48TH CONGRESS
OF INTERNATIONAL PEN
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Introduction
by Salman Rushdie
Luminescences of Words
by Norman Mailer
Dostoevsky in the Ruins
by Kōbō Abe
From Voice to Voice
With Saul Bellow, Günter Grass, Breyten Breytenbach, Adam Zagajewski, Vassily Aksyonov, Allen Ginsberg, Nadine Gordimer, Salman Rushdie, and Susan Sontag
From the Floor
With Grace Paley, Margaret Atwood, and Norman Mailer
A Reservoir of Freedom
by Per Wästberg
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WORLD VOICES
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Risk
by Marcelo Figueras
translated by Frank Wynne
V1agra C1alis
by Asaf Schurr
translated by Asaf Schurr
Ethical Code for Writers
by Pasha Malla & Moez Surani
On Writing
by Alain de Botton
The Little One
by Najat El Hachmi
translated by Peter Bush
Photocopies of Photocopies: On Bao Ninh
by Madeleine Thien
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ARTWORK
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The War on All Fronts & Tower of Babble
by Brian Dettmer
Projections
by Jenny Holzer
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