Monday, January 24, 2011

PEN America Looks at Lovers

PEN America #13 is themed "Lovers" and features a forum on literary love with contributions from Jessica Hagedorn, John Barth, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stewart O'Nan, Anne Landsman, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Lily Tuck, Jesse Ball, Elissa Schappell, Marilynne Robinson, Umberto Eco, Russell Banks, Chinua Achebe, Colum McCann, Michael Cunningham, Philip Gourevitch, Robert Stone, Paul Auster, Arthur Miller, and Willie Perdomo. Also included: short fiction by Don DeLillo, new poetry by John Ashbery and Marilyn Hacker, a conversation between Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem.