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[PEN World Voices] New from the Hub

This was an event for the Internet website Witness.org, the international human-rights organization that uses video to expose human rights abuses. A section of the site for Witness.org called ”The Hub” is for allowing people to post videos. They give video cameras to people “on…
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[PEN World Voices] Bookforum: Political Engagement

The participants in this panel were Elias Khoury and Nurddin Farah (Asli Erdogan, a Turkish writer, couldn’t make it to the festival because of illness) and the moderator was Albert Mobilio. The goal of the event was to consider questions of fiction’s role in political…
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[PEN World Voices] Burma: A Land at a Crossroads

Note that I wrote this before the horrible cyclones and devastation of the last few days in Burma. It breaks my heart to see this happen to Burma. My prayers go out to all its people... This event was dubbed as a panel discussion on…
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“A Bookseller's Tale”

Author/Editor: jenn
Category: General Literary

About “A Bookseller's Tale”

Profession: Bookseller

location: Brooklyn, NY

This is the life and times of the online Bookseller of Brooklyn. As well as being a writer and artist, I am also web developer. I grew up in Cambridge, MA and now I live in Brooklyn, NY. I am a proud member of the profession that promotes books and reading. I do this because I know that peace and justice are not something that can be achieved, they can only be maintained by an educated, aware populace that reads. Visit my online bookstore at www.indigocafe.com

Favorite Authors
Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Colson Whitehead, James Baldwin, Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gloria Naylor, Octavia E. Butler, and others

Favorite Topics
Books, Bookselling, Book Industry, Politics, etc...

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