PEN calls for release of Chinese dissident |
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 PEN calls for release of Chinese dissident The New York Times is reporting on the calls from PEN and others urging the Chinese government to release Liu Xiaobo, pictu...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:06:00 GMT |
Gods can fight forever because they do not diebut we die. |
PEN America Blog: "Gods can fight forever because they do not diebut we die." Amitava Kumar and E.J. Van Lanen have both called attention to this in-depth review of Elias Khoury's Yalo written by ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:01:00 GMT |
Writers and surveillance, then and now |
by David HaglundWednesday, November 12, 2008 Writers and surveillance, then and now Media Mob, over at The New York Observer, points to two articles from this past week about FBI surveillance of...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:59:00 GMT |
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: 11/15 |
Day of the Imprisoned Writer: 11/15 In the past year, the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN has monitored the cases of more than 1,000 writers and journalists in 90 countri...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:08:00 GMT |
A Wake-Up Artist : Celebrating David Foster Wallace |
more insights from the indefatigable David Haglund, Managing Editor of PEN America "A Wake-Up Artist": Celebrating David Foster Wallace Little, Brown organized a memorial to and celebration of Davi...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:14:00 GMT |
Sollosy and Esterhazy, from PEN America |
from David Haglund, Managing Editor of the PEN America Journal and blogger at PEN America "Regardless of the Cost": Judith Sollosy on Péter Esterházy's Revised Edition Back in August, I mentioned a...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:53:00 GMT |
PEN America Journal: Josh Furst |
from David Haglund, Managing Editor of the PEN America Journal "Airport Security," by Joshua Furst Joshua Furst has an excellent short story in our new issue. To read it, you'll have to buy the iss...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:54:00 GMT |
Baghdad, Damascus, Atlanta |
from our dear David Haglund at the PEN America Journal: Baghdad, Damascus, Atlanta Up now at PEN.org are two pieces from PEN America 9 that we're particularly proud to publish: "Baghdad, Damascus, ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:25:00 GMT |
Reminder: Events today! |
PEN events: Reading Burma & Other Means As David Haglund mentioned last week, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, and several others will be reading at a benefit for Burma tomorrow at Cooper Union in...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:14:00 GMT |
Brooklyn Book Festival conversations |
Brooklyn Book Festival conversations On Sunday, PEN had a booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Among many other activities, we arranged impromptu conversations between writers on subjects dear to ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:03:00 GMT |
