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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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Abdellah Taïa & Self-Mythology
Abdellah Taïa is a writer who reminds us of art's power to transcend boundaries and break barriers. Sartre famously wrote that genius is what man invents when he is looking for a way out; Taïa shows that courage also happens.
Taïa is the first openly gay writer to be published ...[More]
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>> Revolutionaries in the Arab World
>> The Pale King Panel Discussion
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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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Why Santa Returns on Christmas Day
For Deirdre Siobhan
What I wanted most for Christmas in my pre-school imagination was a huggable elephant. On Christmas morning when Mother woke us I rushed to get to the Christmas tree before my brother and sister. I didn’t but I didn’t cry either. I was too busy looking at all the wonders under...[More]
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>> Writing Lesson From a Mime
>> Sit-In at Baylor Drug
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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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News from Bahrain
Somewhat good new but still not the best news yet:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bahrain-releases-poet-who-became-a-symbol-of-resistance-to-regime-2313309.html
(from George Simmers-Snakeskin's Blog)
Ayat al-Gormezi, the poet jailed and tortured for reading a poem at a p...[More]
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>> POETRY & PROTEST as A HUMAN RIGHT
>> The Elegance of Muriel Barbery
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Dedi Felman
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Beloved and Unknown
Beloved and Unknown: Adventures in Marketing an International Masterpiece
What sells a book?
Picture an editor desperately scribbling at her desk. She’s drafting a “sell sheet” for a book for which she hopes to gain her publishing colleagues’ support. The autho...[More]
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>> Adaptation
>> Mr. Sandman: Neil Gaiman at PWV
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Richard Crasta
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Born with a Penis--Killing Chapter1
Chapter 1 of The Killing of an Author, My Literary Autobiography
To make a long story short, and to include just enough biographical detail so as to make the rest of the book and its viewpoint somewhat understandable: I was born in a South Indian city eight thousand miles away from New York. Li...[More]
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>> Harold & Salman & Henry & Susan
>> Is Fiction Literature?
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Antonio Romani
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Leopardi
GIACOMO LEOPARDI’S CANTI: A Conversation with Jonathan Galassi
Questo incontro ha proposto al pubblico un Jonathan Galassi leopardiano.
Sincero fino all’autolesionismo quando dice di aver cominciato questo lavoro su Leopardi 10 anni fa, perchè dopo Montale non aveva trovato nessun poeta italian...[More]
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>> Il piacere dell’immaginazione
>> ...la notte e senza vento
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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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Children’s Authors on Voice & Place
The two empty chairs onstage at the PEN Children’s Committee panel, “Who Tells the Story? Children’s Book Writers Talk About Voice,” seemed to have been left there by accident, but unforeseen circumstances kept two participants from attending. Children’s Committee chair...[More]
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>> The Mischief and Mayhem Revolution
>> It’s an Audience, Not a Market
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Deji Olukotun
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Writing about boxing...
"Two men raise their fists."
It's not a great sentence. But it's enough to demonstrate the tension inherent in the sport of boxing. Boxing at its best is high drama.
Boxing was once the U.S.'s most popular sport, with larger-than-life stars, and rivalries born out of ethnicities and ...[More]
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>> Writing transmedia for children...
>> Authors defect from publishers...
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Jane Ciabattari
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Is Sorokin the Russian Bolano?
Although his arrival was delayed by visa problems, Vladimir Sorokin, with his leonine mane of silver hair, was much in evidence at the PEN World Voices Festival.
A daring samizdat postmodernist in the waning Soviet days, Sorokin was known for stories that threw grenades at the long forced marc...[More]
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>> From Russians, with Love
>> Written on Water
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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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