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On the Culture Front: Cock Opens Off-Broadway, PEN Festival Storms New York and More

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Timber Timbre, Radio City Music Hall, Royal National Theatre, Feist, Joyce Theater, Cock Play, New York Theater, Pen, PEN World Voices, Cock Royal National Theatre, New York Art, New York News

Mike Bartlett's buzzed about new play, Cock, from the Royal National Theatre opened to a thunderous and mostly deserved standing ovation at the Duke Thursday night.

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Why I Won't Let My Teen Get A Smartphone

Debra Ollivier | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Online Marketing, Smart Phones, Teens and Technology, Cell Phones, Pen, Facebook, Computer Addiction, Baby Boomers, Parenting post50, Fifty News

My son is sure that smart phones will make you smarter. I beg to differ -- and that's whether you're 16 or 60.

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Lost & Found in Translation

Joe Woodward | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Writers, Literary Biography, Book Awards, Cervantes, Alive Inside the Wreck, Nathanael West, Translation, Pen, Literary-Translators, Biography, Books News

Let us enjoy the surprises, the challenges of literature in all languages, in translation and otherwise. Let us contemplate the writer, too, writing in all her forms. Let us see how we are.

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Edith Pearlman, PEN Award Winner, On Success Late In Life

Debra Ollivier | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Short Stories, Literature, Edith Pearlman, Writing, National Book Award, The Writing Life, Pen, O. Henry Prize, Fifty News

Why Edith Pearlman is not known to a broader audience is a mystery on par with how the pyramids were built -- so suggests Ann Patchett in the introduction to Pearlman's Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories.

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Salman Rushdie Picks Books For New York Hotel's Guest Rooms

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Authors, Book Picks, Hotel Nightstand, Guest Room Reading, Satanic Verses, Pen, Reading Picks, William Faulkner, Walt Whitman, Housing Works, Standard Hotel, Salman Rushdie, Hotel Reading, Books News

Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie has come to the aid of guests who check into a trendy Manhattan hotel with nothing to read, choosing 13 celebrated A...

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iPad Killer: Truly, Really, I mean It

Jim Louderback | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Test, Specs, Review, Windows, Apps, Android, Future, 1080p, Archos, Jailbreak, Sample, New, 3g, Ipad, Tablet, Ces, Cost, Show, Internet, Video, Hd, Versus, Pen, Gadget, Technology, Wifi, Umpc, Vegas, Best, Price, Dock, Pc, Las, Samsung, Free, Pcs, Release Date, 2011, Consumer, Windows 7, Vs, 4g Lte, Electronics, Ces 2011, Technology News

CES 2011: I'm the first to admit that I fall victim to shiny objects at trade shows, and I regularly call every new tablet an iPad Killer. But now, really, I've found it.

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China Roiled by Washington's October Surprise

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Gates agreed to hold talks with China next year. Cybersecurity, oil politics, and China's expanding role in Latin America will all be on the agenda. And if Liu Xiaobo doesn't have his 'get out of jail' card by then, he might be too.

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What I Learned Going Home on the Number Seven Bus

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Public Transit, Viking Press, Number 7 Bus, Pen, New York Public Library, Jack Kerouac, New York City, Berg Collection, New York News

What do I learn in 15 minutes on the number 7 bus between 50th St. and 66th St.?

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Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Writer, Transferred To Prison Camp

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xiaobo Prison, Liu Xiaobo Arrested, Books, China, Chinese Writer, Pen, Free Speech, Books News

On Christmas Day last year, Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his part in creating Charter 08, a document calling for ...

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Verizon Ending FiOS Expansion

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recorder, Livescribe, Pen, Shelley, Digital, Audio, Shelly, Notes, Palmer, Life, Pulse, Media News

Verizon's decision leaves many high speed broadband seekers in 32 states without the option of signing up for the powerful FiOS network.

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Sherman Alexie Wins PEN/Faulkner Award

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sherman Alexie War Dances, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie PEN/Faulkner, PEN/Faulkner, PEN/Faulkner Award, Authors, Literary Prizes, Sherman Alexie, Ebooks, Books, Pen, War Dances, Books News

Sherman Alexie has won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced Tuesday morning. Alexie's 2009 novel, "War Dances," came out on t...

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Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie Among Writers Featured At PEN World Voices Festival

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writers, Toni Morrison, Authors, Sherman Alexie, Jonathan Lethem, Books, Salman Rushdie, Pen, PEN World Voices, Richard Fod, PEN World Voices Festival, Books News

NEW YORK — Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Sherman Alexie will be among the writers featured at the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival of ...

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Princeton Scholar Re-elected As PEN President

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Princeton, Pen, Kwame Anthony Appiah, PEN American Center, PEN America, The Northeast, College News

NEW YORK — Author-scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah has been elected to a second one-year term as president of the PEN American Center. In a stateme...

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ESPN And PEN Team Up For Sports Writing Award

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sports Writing, Espn, Literary Sports Writing, Literary Prizes, Books, Sports Writing Award, Sports, Pen, Books News

NEW YORK — ESPN and a leading writers organization agree: Sports stories can be literature. The Bristol, Conn.-based cable television sports ne...

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Liu Xiaobo Imprisonment: Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow And Other Writers Gather To Protest

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Public Library, China, Liu Xiaobo, Liu Xiaobo Imprisonment, Protesting, Writers, Don Delillo, E.L. Doctorow, Authors, Edward Albee, Chinese Writer, Books, Pen, Chinese Censorship, Books News

Major writers will gather in New York this morning to call for the release of Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo. On Christmas Day, Liu Xiaobo w...

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Every Day My Heart Gets Broken

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Friedman, School Vouchers, PEN in the Classroom, Lausd, High School Students, Public School, Culver City, Pen, Teacher Unions, Race to the Top, Los Angeles News

What I love about my students' writing is its honesty. What I admire about most of my students is that despite the hurt they've felt, the fear that follows them, they keep showing up.

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Writer Liu Xiaobo Release from China Demanded By Congress

PEN American Center | Larry Siems | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Censorship, Liu Xiaobo, Writers, PEN America, Liu Xiaobo Release, Beijing Writer, Writer, PEN American Center, Books, Pen, Chinese Censorship, Books News

New York City, October 2, 2009--Calling yesterday's near-unanimous vote approving a Congressional resolution demanding the immediate release of critic...

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The Stones of the Golden Women: Requiem for Tsunamis Past and Present

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Samoa, Natural Disaster, Indonesia, Tsunami, Hiroshima, Earthquake, Georgianne Nienaber, Samoa, Stones of the Golden Women, A-Bomb, Pen, Khwaiyun Lukjan, Kurotaro Kurosaka, Moken, World News

The conference on Culture and Natural Disaster was named "Screamed, Survived, Start Anew." A Thai novelist narrated his description of the tsunami of December 26, 2004.

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We Tell Each Other Stories In Order To Live

Andrew Marantz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Petina Gappah, Geneva, Salman Rushdie, Brooke Astor, Bokara Legendre, Moth, Pen, New York Socialites, Dumbo, World News

Each performer had ten minutes to tell a story. Not a rant, not a stand up routine, and, for heaven's sake, not a reading (no notes allowed).

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Islamic Porn, Fake Diamonds And Racist Literature

Huffington Post Contributor | Andrew Marantz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prieto, Andrew Marantz, Proust, International Literature, International PEN, Pen, Ee, PEN World Voices Festival, World News

When the novelist Jose Manuel Prieto left Cuba to spend a decade in Siberia, he could only fit a few books in his suitcase, so he packed several volum...

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Salman Rushdie, Paul Krugman To Speak At PEN World Voices Festival

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman will be among the authors featured at this spring's PEN Wo...

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Joseph O'Neill's Netherland Wins PEN/Faulkner Prize

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland," an acclaimed post-Sept. 11 novel bypassed for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics C...

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