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Elise Blackwell
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Writing Outside of Paradise
Friday night’s “Readings From Around the Globe” was similar in format to Wednesday night’s headlining “Revolution/Evolution” readings: a series of authors read in their own languages while the English translations scrolled on a screen behind them. The fo...[More]
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>> Stories with a Missing Piece
>> A New Language
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Anderbo.com
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A Closer Dialogue
“Is the freedom to write separate from other freedoms?”
This is how the fourth annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write lecture with Egyptian novelist and activist Nawal El Saadawi began on Sunday in Cooper Union’s Great Hall. “I have not seen a real freedom to write in...[More]
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>> Boundaries of Imagination
>> Taboo to Who?
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Shaun Randol
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According the arguments put forth by Nawal El Saadawi at the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, nobody in the world is truly free. “We are all prisoners of the system, but we are not aware of it,” she boldly claims. Social revolutions are needed, and they must grow from criticisms o...[More]
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>> On Real and Imagined Conflict Zones
>> A Smorgasbord of Global Voices
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Robert Flynn
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Christmas Means Tamales
Vernon, the county seat, was 12 miles from my father’s farm. In addition to the courthouse, it had 2 or 3 grocery stores, a library, 3 picture shows and “Snuff Street” where men met over and around tobacco products while the kids went to the library and then the picture show and women sat in cars ...[More]
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>> Greatest Generation? Humbug!
>> Insurance Death Culture
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Masha Hamilton
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My People
I attended a variety of panels over these last few days covering a smorgasbord of topics—truth and deceptions, political atrocities and censorship, the future of literature and its past—but there has been one blissful and unexpected unifying factor. In every audience, in casual conversat...[More]
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>> Same-Same, Different-Different
>> Writing Into The Darkness
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Michelle Slater
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THE TIME OF THE DOVES
DEATH IN SPRINGTIME & TIME OF THE DOVES
LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION - FRIENDSHIP
Tonight I attended another PEN International Festival event (my 8th since Tuesday) at the beautiful Baryshnikov Arts Center on West 37th Street. Jessica Lange performed, with her usual depth of...[More]
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>> A SLOW BLOGGER
>> NIGHTBIRDS
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Dedi Felman
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Mr. Sandman: Neil Gaiman at PWV
There’s a certain kind of author whose cool sneaks up on one so quietly, hastily, and tardily that the only legitimate response for the (otherwise) well-read savant may be to reject this problematic writer, now the ne plus ultra of the literary set, out of hand.
If you’ve ...[More]
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>> J.M.G. Le Clézio & Adam Gopnik
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Richard Crasta
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What We All Need
WHAT WE ALL NEED
A Reassessment of my Life
and What I and My Readers Need Now
What We All Need is my relatively new book, unreleased in the USA, briefly released in India only to be quietly and effectively banned (Jai Ho Indian Democracy!) and now absent in all but one or two bookstores&...[More]
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>> Harold & Salman & Henry & Susan
>> Is Fiction Literature?
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Antonio Romani
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Innocence and Guilt:Starnone/Monda
Innocence and Guilt: Domenico Starnone in Conversation with Antonio Monda
Nell’ accogliente saletta dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Domenico Starnone continua la conversazione di qualche ora prima alla Scandinavia House, raccontando del suo ultimo libro (Prima esecuzion...[More]
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>> The Embodiment of Generosity
>> Left/Right Literature
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Anne Landsman
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The Third Bird
The Scholastic Auditorium was packed for the event “Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children’s Book Writer” featuring panelists Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, Shaun Tan, with Andrea Davis Pinkney as the participating moderator. Un...[More]
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>> Passion for the Page
>> Everything's on the Table
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Michael Kelleher
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Last PWV Post
Just back to Buffalo after 5 hectic days dashing from one PWV event to the next and trying to catch up with all of my old friends in between.
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The last event I attended was "Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda." It featured a reading of Merc&eg...[More]
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>> Translation and Its Discontents II
>> Readings from Around the Globe
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Mary Ann Caws
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Visual Storytelling
Most of all I loved Jonathan Ames' Harry call, with which he opened and closed this session -- heartfelt, warm, loud, vibrating...
he organized the session aroung "origin stories" -- what started the three visual storytellers -- Emmanuel Guilbert, David Polonsky, Shaun Tan -- on the...[More]
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>> Neil Gaiman: Books and Imagination
>> Readings from around the Globe
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Lyn Miller-Lachmann
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Images of Defiance
Beneath a projection of the lone man standing in front of three Chinese tanks near Tienanmen Square, eleven readers and dozens of listeners came together at Joe's Pub to hear selections that spoke of resistance to oppression in all its forms. None referred specifically to the Chinese man, and absent...[More]
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>> Writers Meet the Teens
>> The Writer as Political Prisoner
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Deji Olukotun
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Interview: Lynn Nottage, "Ruined"
Playwright Lynn Nottage has received numerous awards for her groundbreaking work on the stage, including the MacArthur 'Genius' Award. A Brooklyn native, she regularly champions social justice issues in her plays. She was recently awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her play Ruined, a hard-hitting tale...[More]
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>> Fela! the Musical: A Review
>> A Story on Sunday's Bombing in Iraq
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Jane Ciabattari
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Richard Ford, Nam Le Conversation
Sooner or later, a guy writing short stories in English is going to have to come up against Richard Ford, whose work from Rock Springs to A Multitude of Sins has proven him to be a master of the form, hence his 2001 PEN/Malamud award for excellence in short fiction. (Not to mention Ford’s ...[More]
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>> PEN World Voices Cabaret
>> Atxaga Encounter
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Meena Alexander
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salman rushdie's story
I enjoyed this immensely, the intimate, low slung space at Galapagos with lots of people and drinks and then the actual program of storytelling, writers standing up their and talking their stories into the mike as ordinary people do in real time, so that the audience is gripped, held there, ...[More]
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>> short films with poems
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Peter H. Fogtdal
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BEA09: Writers Shot At Dawn
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I love book fairs like BEA09.
The first hour I always walk around like a happy idiot, enjoying the different stands, and the hustle and bustle of book sluts from around the world. The second hour I still like being there, I smile at strangers and admire their cleavage. The third hour I start ...[More]
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>> Meir Shalev - How Weird Is That???
>> The Moth Hath Me in Stitches
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