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  PEN America 12: Correspondences

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

 

FORUM: CORRESPONDENCES

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.

or

2 Describe your experience with the new technology of correspondence: Twitter, e-mail, Facebook, etc.

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FICTION

Ten Approximations
by Alex Epstein

His Mother’s Voice
by Leïla Marouane

Life
by Donald Ray Pollock

In Sfax
by Jean-Philippe Toussaint

CORRESPONDENCES

A Truly Mad Business
Claire Messud & Mohammed Naseehu Ali

A Vast Kind of Fiction
David Gates & Jonathan Lethem

DRAMA

A Game
by Melissa James Gibson

POETRY

Hunger
by Yasser Abdel-Latif

My Octopus Orphan, My Wolf Sister
by Matthea Harvey

Horoscopes for the Dead
by Billy Collins

Of Course, Utensils Shrink
by Piotr Sommer

COMICS



Mehdi’s Gone
by Amir and Khalil




The Living Room
by Zeina Abirached

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