PEN America 12 Now Available; Subscribe Today!‏

PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers A one-year subscription to PEN America, PEN’s award-winning literary journal, costs just $18. Subscribe today and receive a free copy of The 2010 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories! All proceeds go to PEN American Center. PEN America was nominated this year for an Utne Independent Press Award, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize. PEN America 12: Correspondences presents e-mail exchanges, letters, telegrams, epistolary fiction, and more. Sam Lipsyte sends a note to Barry Hannah, Anne Carson searches letters from a lost brother, and Robert Walser writes behind the walls of a sanitarium. Plus comics from Iran and Lebanon; poetry by Billy Collins; and much, much more. FORUM: CORRESPONDENCES 1 Write the first paragraph of a letter you’d like to send either to another writer, living or dead, or to a fictional character. or 2 Describe your experience with the new technology of correspondence: Twitter, e-mail, Facebook, etc. >> Go to the forum FICTION Ten Approximations by Alex Epstein His Mother’s Voice by Leïla Marouane Life by Donald Ray Pollock In Sfax by Jean-Philippe Toussaint CORRESPONDENCES A Truly Mad Business Claire Messud & Mohammed Naseehu Ali A Vast Kind of Fiction David Gates & Jonathan Lethem DRAMA A Game by Melissa James Gibson GRAPHIC ARTS Mehdi’s Gone by Amir and Khalil The Living Room by Zeina Abirached POETRY Hunger by Yasser Abdel-Latif My Octopus Orphan, My Wolf Sister by Matthea Harvey Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins Of Course, Utensils Shrink by Piotr Sommer Unsubscribe rawfkolkata@live.com from this list. Update your information. PEN American Center | 588 Broadway, Suite 303 | New York, NY 10012 | (212)