Writing to receive advice from a public advice columnist is like pushing your mangled and so personal ware at a market: humbling yourself to the appraiser, you lay out your messy tale of fated tryst and betrayal. The...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has hogged Arizona’s limelight since he was first elected in 1993. His edgy law enforcement tactics, such as outfitting prisoners in pink underwear and feeding them green bologna, made him a...

When searching for exquisite clothes from bygone decades, the renowned Madeleine Kirsh is the foremost expert on the subject. As expected, her store, C. Madeleine’s, on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, is home to an...

Earlier this year, one of the most conscientious and commanding writers today, Anne Waldman participated in PEN American’s World Voices Festival event, “Translating Poets Alive,” where her work Tell Me...

Charles Simic is undoubtedly one of the greatest poets in America today. Quite appropriately, three months ago, the man who had stated that “some people are more able to do the impossible” had participated in the...

Wojciech Jagielski was in town for the PEN World Voices Festival in New York City and to promote Night Wanderers, his most recent book in English. The book tells the story of the journalist’s experiences in Uganda...

The PEN World Voices Festival, held in New York City every year, brings together writers from all over the world to converse about their own and others’ work. The acronym stands for Poets, Essayists and Novelists,...

For those of you who feel the written word is in disrepair, it was alive and well at PEN’s 8th Annual World Voices Festival held the first week of May in New York City.

“Some moments in life stand out with hallucinatory intensity, shaping everything that comes afterward: the birth of a child, a victory earned after steady, hard work; a bitter loss or humiliation; a marriage...

In all the years of her advice-giving career, it is unlikely Ann Landers was ever faced with a question like “Is Jesus a lot of hype?” The same goes for her sister; a special no-prize...