Location:
Brooklyn, NY
What are you working on right now?
A novel about a very elderly couple in which the man is on trial for murder/s. Also a novel about Quantum Mechanics.
What's the best book you read this year?
Embers, by Sandor Marai
Who was the best new writer you read this year?
Donovan Hohn
What was the best work in translation you read this year?
The Illiad, translated by Robert Fagles
What is your favorite literary web site?
Don't have one but am working to remedy that.
What is your favorite literary blog?
Don't know of any.
What was the best literary event you attended this year?
I try to avoid literary events.
What was the most important literary news this year?
The fact that the Turkish court found Orhan Pamuk not guilty for something that never should have been brought to trial.
What do you value most about your Membership to PEN?
The almost mystical and mythological connection I have to other writers.
For how long have you been a Member of PEN?
Ten years.
Did you post listings on PEN's Membership pages (for Member events, publications, and news) this year?
Yes.
What literary topics would you would like to see discussed by PEN Members in an online forum?
Whatever happened to writers such as Thom Jones, Peter Hoeg, Gustaw Herling, and the amazing young Russian woman writer whose name I have forgotten who won an International writing contest 5 or 6 years ago with an a brilliant piece called "The Dictionary of the Wind," or something close to that.
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