[PEN World Voices] New from the Hub
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Literary Events, politics
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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leave a comment [PEN World Voices] Bookforum: Political Engagement
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Literary Events, politics
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
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Literary Events, politics
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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Book Review of I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies
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apologies, philosophy, politics
Alfred Kinsey’s work elevated the conversation about sex. Timothy Leary’s work elevated the conversation about drugs. Now, Nick Smith gives us his thorough study of apologies, a work that promises to elevate the conversation about what it means to say “I’m sorry.” I Was Wrong:…
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Book Review: The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith
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Business, Economics, Politics
Genre: Business, Economics, Politics ISBN: 0393062368 Pub. Date: August 2007 Format: Hardcover, 384pp Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. India (back office to the world) and China (factory to the world) have become major players in the world economy seemingly overnight. So what should…
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1 commentSACCO & VANZETTI: MURDERED AUG. 23, 1927
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were put to death 80 years ago on August 23, 1927, after a notoriously prejudiced and unfair trial. Here is a poem of mine that speaks about the two men and the times. It was originally published in Pemmican. SONNET…
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