PEN America 14: The Good Books - PEN American Center

PEN America 14: The Good Books

By PEN American Center

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