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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Horacio Castellanos Moya profiles Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas and ponders how much impending death affects a writer’s style.
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“La relación entre distintas generaciones literarias responde muchas a veces a un movimiento pendular: la nueva generación se mueve hacia el extremo opuesto de las posiciones estéticas, y a veces políticas, de donde se ubicaba la generación anterior.”
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Horacio Castellanos Moya examines how literary trends in Latin American countries are often a backlash against the trends that precede them.
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Swiss author and editor Bernard Comment’s The Shadow Memory is now available in English for the first time. Comment will be coming to Pittsburgh to read at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh on October 29.
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In this interview spoken word poet TJ Dema discusses the changing landscape of Botwana’s poetry, the importance of anthologies, the difficulties of making it as a full-time writer in Botswana, and why she needs to hear words.
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In this week’s Pakistan Unveiled Bina Shah profiles Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto, who faced obscenity charges in Pakistan during his lifetime. After decades of being marginalized, Manto’s work is now recognized as “the literary voice of a nation.”
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A video of Patrick Ness’ lecture, “Should freedom of speech ever have limits?” delivered August 20 at the Edinburgh World Writer’s Conference.
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Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon’s forthcoming novel The Polish Boxer is expected in October. Word Without Borders is appealing to readers to help bring Halfon to New York and London for a series of readings geared to high school students. We share a video of Halfon talking about his new novel.
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In this interview, author Lori Jakiela discusses Pittsburgh’s literary community, her writing process, the “particular kind of truth” in memoir, and why her working-class background is important for her career.
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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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