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PEN Author Spotlight: Morten Ramsland’s “Doghead” Mixes Highbrow, Lowbrow Humor In Multigenerational Family Saga
“Somewhere in Eastern Germany, my grandfather Askild is running across an open plain. The Germans are after him, and he has lost one of his shoes; it’s freezing. The half moon casts a pale glow over the landscape, transforming it into a ploughed field with frozen soldiers partly buried in mud….My father has not... »
Triptych Unites Komunyakaa, Pinson and Girmay for Night of Poetry, Blues and Beverage
Spring is a young guy on his back, underneath the green, ripe tree whose small fires we wear in our hair & on our dresses, the dogwoods & magnolias, the guy whose voice is changing from snow to donkey splay, sprawled out in his Avirex & doo-rag »
Along for the Ride: Novelistic Journeys with John Wray
To publicize his previous novel, Canaan’s tongue, (a book set on the river between Louisiana and Mississippi), author John Wray constructed a raft from Home Depot boards and floated down the Mississippi, giving readings as he went. Wray’s newest novel, Lowboy, is largely set in the underground universe of the New York City subway system.... »