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I’ve recently added a search function so that you can limit your Google search to just the blogs that are members of MetaxuCafe. I think that will be a good resource for everyone looking for literary topics online and you’ll find it right on the front page as well as other places on the site. Now if you want to read about, say Orhan Pamuk, but only want to search the litblogs you trust, you can narrow your search right here.
Audio Video and Lots more Blogging at the PEN Website
by BudParr | MetaxuCafe on May 04, 2008
I posted once or twice about the PEN blogs for the World Voices festival, but thought it time for a reminder because there’s a bunch more content there since they’ve recruited members to blog a lot of events. Here’s the opening of Marion James’ entry on the ”Mean Streets” event:
I could call it the bad boys panel, but that would seem glib not to mention reductive. Truth be told, you could almost feel this panel, all men except for the brilliant and spunky SJ Rozan sapping the testosterone from everybody in the room. The topic was “Mean Streets” and the writers, Jo Nesbo (Norway), Roberto Saviano (Italy), Christian Jungersen (Denmark) and Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia). Whether through non-fiction (Saviano’s blistering account of Neapolitan crime organizations), hard-boiled Scandinavian crime fiction (Jo Nesbo), a workplace hell unlike anything you’ve ever imagined (Jungersen) or a report from the dark days of Colombia’s recent history (Gabriel Vasquez), they have all written books that plunge into unflinching darkness, with boldness, candor, and sometimes even beauty.
See: PEN World Voices Blogs and the PEN World Voices Audio Archive.
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