The winners of the 2011 PEN literary awards have been announced. It’s an exciting list that passes up some authors who have already taken home loads of prizes this year for some new voices, and a good year all around for women and indie publishers.
The prize for a work of debut fiction will Read More
Last night was the PEN America Gala, where, beneath the Natural History Museum’s dangling whale, Margaret Atwood received the organization’s Literary Service Award.
Said Atwood as she accepted the honor, “I don’t deserve this but if we all got what we deserved we would all be boiling in oil.”
John Buffalo Mailer, the pouty-lipped 31-year-old son of Norman and Norris Church Mailer, has mainly been a theater actor and playwright. (Hello Herman, which he wrote in college, recently underwent a revival in Los Angeles, with Sawyer Spielberg, son of Steven, playing the lead.) But recently, Mr. Mailer finished filming for Wall Street 2, the Read More
