PEN America 13: Lovers

Who is dear to you? PEN America 13: Lovers features short fiction by Don DeLillo, new poetry by John Ashbery and Marilyn Hacker, a conversation between Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem, and much more—including a forum on literary love with John Barth, Jessica Hagedorn, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lily Tuck, and many others.

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Human Moments in World War III
by Don DeLillo

The Disappearing Bride and Other Stories
by Helen Phillips

Admiration
by Quim Monzó
translated by Mary Ann Newman

The Pretty Grown-Together Children
by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Before the Next World Cup
by Eshkol Nevo
translated by Sondra Silverston

Strange and Dangerous Times
with Don DeLillo

Rimbaud’s Calling Card
Patti Smith & Jonathan Lethem

Mother Tongue
Atiq Rahimi & Lila Azam Zanganeh

The cover of PEN America 13: Lovers features a painting called Couple by Daisy Rockwell, aka Lapata. As part of this online Feature, we present a series of Rockwell’s paintings, part of an ongoing project in which she explores themes inspired by the Sanskrit aesthetic theory of Rasa. >> See the gallery

Tell us about a writer who is especially dear to you—a literary mentor, forebear, friend, or lover …

Contributors:

Jessica Hagedorn • John Barth • Yusef Komunyakaa • Stewart O’Nan • Anne Landsman • Saïd Sayrafiezadeh • Lily Tuck • Jesse Ball • Elissa Schappell

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One Way to Disappear
by Lilli Carré

Free Verses to My Son
by Natalia Sannikova
translated by Matvei Yankelvich

Poems
by Akinwumi Isola
translated by Akinloyé A. Òjó

Black Mirrors
by Faraj Bayrakdar
translated by John Asfour

Resettlement
by John Ashbery