PEN America 14: The Good Books

By PEN American Center

Release Date: 2011-05-20
Genre: Fiction & Literature

Description

In The Good Books, over 50 writers—including Yiyun Li, Anne Fadiman, Karen Russell, Gary Shteyngart, David Shields, and many more—choose the works in translation they'd bring to a great global book swap. Also featured: talks and conversation by Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, and other participants in the 1986 PEN Congress. Plus fiction, poetry, essays, and comics from around the world.

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PEN America 14: The Good Books

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PEN America 14: The Good Books

By PEN American Center

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PEN American Center, Agha Shahid Ali, Milan Kundera, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Grace Paley, Charles Simic, Philip K. Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur Miller & Jeanette Winterson

PEN American Center, Ian McEwan, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mahmoud Darwish, Kimiko Hahn & Sarah Ruhl

PEN American Center, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Ha Jin, Michael Ondaatje, Jonathan Franzen, Shan Sa, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Francine Prose

PEN American Center, Luis Buñuel, Mahmoud Darwish, Gabriel García Márquez, Yoko Tawada, George Saunders, Paul Auster & Salman Rushdie

PEN American Center, Edward Albee, John Ashberry, Joseph Brodsky, Fernando Pessoa, Bruno Schulz, Gertrude Stein, Wisława Szymborska & Italo Calvino

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