October 21, 2010
Body Work Grand Prize
Yours for not quite the asking, the Grand Prize in the Body Work Sweepstakes. We’re giving away a signed copy of Body Work along with some Chicago memorabilia including not […]
READ MOREOctober 9, 2010
Hossein Derakhshan, Prisoner of Conscience
On September 29, the Iranian government sentenced 33-year-old Canadian-Iranian writer Hossein Derakhshan to 19.5 years in prison for his writing. He was accused of many bogus crimes, including being an […]
READ MOREOctober 3, 2010
JAPAN, PEN literary forum and more
LITERARY FORUM, TOKYO-WASEDA UNIVERSITY PEN-Japan hosted this year’s annual PEN Congress from September 23-September 28, and I was privileged to be present. The Congress began with a literary forum, presented […]
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