Sampsonia Way shares an exclusive excerpt from Liao Yiwu’s For a Song and a Hundred Songs that details his 1990 arrest and the arrests of others in his circle.
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Sampsonia Way presents Silence, Please, an excerpt from writer Hilary Masters’ collection “In Rooms of Memory.” Masters is the author of several novels.
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Sampsonia Way presents the first chapter from Bénarès, a novel by Barlen Pyamootoo. Pyamootoo is participating in a short-term residency at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Sampsonia Way presents an excerpt from Bénarès by Barlen Pyamootoo. Pyamootoo is participating in a short-term residency at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Sampsonia Way presents a series of excerpts from books recommended by our Fearless Ink. writers. The Halfway House was chosen by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
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Sampsonia Way presents an excerpt from Indian author Vijay Nair’s latest novel Let Her Rest Now which was published in June by Hachette India. Nair is currently a visiting writer at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Read an excerpt from The Polish Boxer, Eduardo Halfon’s first novel to be published in English. The novel’s title comes from a story told by the narrator’s grandfather, who says he was saved in Auschwitz by a Polish boxer.
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Sampsonia Way magazine presents fragments from Tyrant Memory selected by author. The tyrant of Castellanos Moya’s ambitious new novel is based on the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez who came to power in El Salvador in 1932.
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Canadian writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis reads an excerpt from The Free World. David Bezmozgis gave a reading alongside Kyung-Sook Shin from South Korea and Hervé Le Tellier at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, where this video was recorded.
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In this video, Christos Tsiolkas reads an excerpt from his novel The Slap, which explores the changing lifestyle of Australia’s middle-class and confronts issues such as multiculturalism, homophobia, and infidelity.
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