In this video, Gary Shteyngart answers live-Tweeted questions about his novel Super Sad True Love Story and and speaks with Eric Shiner, The Warhol Museum Director, at a City of Asylum/Pittsburgh reading.
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In this interview South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin talks about the importance of everyday love, why we need to find our Moms again, and the way that her book blends collective and personal histories. In May 2011, Shin gave a reading at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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In May 2011, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh received an anonymous poem honoring exiled Chinese poet Huang Xiang for daring to touch “dangerous themes” that “earned him the solitude of prison.”
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A poem from Syrian poet Maram al-Massri from her Red Cherry on a White Tile Floor, who also spoke to Sampsonia Way about the Arab Spring and the Syrian uprising.
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Sampsonia Way’s literary calendar is a comprehensive source for information on events happening around town, including PPTCO’s production of Amy and David Sedaris’s The Book of Liz.
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Q&A with writer and activist Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since the early ’90s. Here, she speaks about women’s rights in relation to Islamic law. Nasrin has faced two fatwas in India and three in her home country, Bangladesh
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In this interview with Sampsonia Way, Syrian poet Maram al-Massri discusses being a female poet in Syria, censorship, freedom of expression, social media, and the Arab Spring.
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Hervé Le Tellier reads an excerpt from his novel Enough About Love, which follows the fortunes of two couples who unexpectedly encounter love at a point long after their lives appear to be settled.
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In this interview conducted at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Canadian writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis discusses his latest novel, The Free World, the immigrant tale of three generations of Russian Jews who flee Soviet Latvia and head for Rome.
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Excerpt from Le Tellier’s Enough About Love, a thought-provoking, sophisticated, and, above all, amusing novel that captures the euphoria of desire through tender and unflinching portraits of husbands, wives, and lovers.
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Cartoonists at Risk and Their Defenders
Sampsonia Way presents Cartoonists Rights Network International, a cartoon-focused human rights organization, along with several of its affiliates and their work. READ
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