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P E N American Center

Featuring tributes to John Steinbeck and writing by Jeanette Winterson, Alice Munro, Tim O'Brien, Agha Shahid Ali, Milan Kundera, Lorrie Moore, and Charles Simic. PEN members explore unreliable narrators in politics and literature. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia.   In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.

PEN America 4: Fact/Fiction (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

Literature & Fiction

America, PEN

Literary

Metamorphoses features work from Jorge Luis Borges, Mavis Gallant, Monique Truong, William Kennedy, Mary Morris, Pablo Neruda, Mahmoud Darwish, Matthea Harvey, Eamon Grennan, Steven Millhauser, and Yoko Tawada, among many others. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.

PEN America Issue 6: Metamorphoses (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

Making Histories showcases writers from all over the world re-imagining the past and representing the overlooked, with work from Chris Abani, Eve Ensler, Etgar Keret, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Jeanette Winterson, and many more. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.

PEN America 8: Making Histories (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

In Fear Itself, Edward Albee, Edwidge Danticat, and others think about what fear means to them; Yoshihiro Tatsumi depicts hell; and a detainee describes Guantánamo. Plus new fiction from Lydia Davis and Etgar Keret, poems from Burma, fiction from Mexico—and much more. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.

PEN America Issue 10: Fear Itself (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

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. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.

PEN America Issue 12: Correspondences (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

This issue considers the people, ideas, places, and emotions that draw us back again and again. In this issue, Edwidge Danticat remembers, Martín Espada goes home, Laura Esquivel cooks, and Joyce Carol Oates does not. With fiction by Serge Brussolo, Kazuki Kaneshiro, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Alissa Nutting, Joseph Roth, Merritt Tierce, Dorothy Tse, and Aurora Venturini; poetry by Seungja Choi, Russell Edson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Camille Rankine, Roger Reeves, Juliana Spahr, and C.D. Wright; nonfiction by Ezekiel Caligiuri, Mona Eltahawy, Aminatta Forna, Jarod Roselló, and Tom Stoppard; conversations with Rashidah Ismaili, Bob Morris, Zanele Muholi, James Risen, Edward Snowden, Abdourahman Waberi, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Kerry Young.

PEN America Issue 19: Hauntings (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

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