PEN
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What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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What to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize winners share books that have inspired them!
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Apply for the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship!
Apply for PEN America’s Emerging Voices Fellowship through 8/1!
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Encountering the Essay
Charles D’Ambrosio, a finalist for the 2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Loitering: New and Collected Essay, has a piece up on the PEN website about his first encounter with the essay.
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What We Eventually Remember
Over at PEN, Emily St. John Mandel chats about forming an identity: I’d been a dancer all my life but didn’t really want to dance anymore. I spent a great deal of time scheming desperately to get back to New…
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The Rumpus Interview with Gregory Rabassa
Responsible for introducing American readers to One Hundred Years of Solitude and a large portion of the Latin American literary canon, award-winning translator Gregory Rabassa discusses the state of translation today and much more.
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Tom Stoppard Wins PEN/Pinter Award
This year’s PEN/Pinter Prize, “awarded annually to a British writer or a writer resident in Britain of outstanding literary merit,” goes to Tom Stoppard. Stoppard’s plays, including classics like Jumpers and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, have been interrogating philosophy, society, and…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Syria’s Poets Under Threat
The debate about political poetry in the United States sometimes has an arid feel to it. Essential, yes. But fatally so? Not very often. But poets caught up in violent political events are brethren. I believe it is essential for…
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Zoë Ruiz at PEN
Marketplace has an interesting write-up on the current state of PEN, the ninety-year-old organization that makes sure writers are guaranteed their right of free speech. The segment also features an excerpt from Rumpus Saturday Editor Zoë Ruiz, who read her Rumpus essay “Donna”…
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Margaret Atwood on the Internet
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaiden’s Tale, the last book Jenna Le loved, tells us about writing with the internet as part of PEN’s Dialogue Series. “For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.… I think…
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Reckoning With Torture
Kelly Clark and Eve Ensler both read a speech originally given by President Bush against torture after the Abu Ghraib photos came out as part of PEN and the ACLU’s “staged readings showcasing declassified documents that detail America’s post-9/11 torture program.”…
