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Award-winning writer Andrew Solomon has been named the president of the PEN American Center.
Here’s more from the press release: “This is an urgent time for issues of free expression, and a critical time for PEN. In the wake of Charlie Hebdo, revelations about surveillance in the United States, international assaults on open dialogue for gay people, and restrictions on press and Internet in many countries worldwide, our mission could not be more clear: free speech is under siege and its defenders cannot rest.”
Solomon will be succeeding journalist Peter Godwin who has taken on this role for the past three years. Follow these links to watch Solomon’s TED talks on hardship, love, and depression.
PEN president Peter Godwin and World Voices chair Salman Rushdie have written a letter to the Chinese government, protesting its recent travel restrictions for artist Ai Weiwei.
This confinement means that Weiwei will most likely be unable to attend a PEN American Center event scheduled for October 11th in New York City. Here’s an excerpt from Godwin and Rushdie’s letter:
Like our colleagues throughout the world’s art and literary communities, we were shocked when Ai Weiwei was detained in 2011, and we are deeply disappointed to learn that he remains unable to travel freely and participate in international fora and conversations in which he has so clearly earned a place. We believe restricting his right to travel abroad risks violating Chinese and international laws, and that it does little to advance the goals and aspirations of the Chinese government and its people. We therefore entreat you to return Ai Weiwei’s passport immediately and lift all restrictions against him, allowing him to travel to represent his own work and his ideas.
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on 10/27/2011
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A big thanks to everyone who joined us last night at the Housing Works Bookstore to enjoy the "Changing World of the Foreign Correspondent" panel moderated by The Paris Correspondent author Alan S. Cowell. Joining the panel to discuss the rapidly changing world of journalism in the digital age were Chrystia Freeland, global editor-at-large of Reuters News; John Darnton, award-winning journalist and bestselling author of Almost a Family and Black and White and Dead All Over; and Peter Godwin, author of Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun.
How does the job of the foreign correspondent change over time? Will on the ground foreign correspondence be necessary in the future? Does the rapid pace of web journalism compromise credibility in foreign reporting? Last night's panelists tackled these big questions about the state of global journalism in the age of Twitter and shared stories from their backgrounds as pioneers in the field of digital media.
Join The Overlook Press on Wednesday, October 26 for a panel discussion on "The Changing World of the Foreign Correspondent" with Alan S. Cowell, author of The Paris Correspondent and a reporter for New York Times.com based in Paris. The panel will address the rapidly changing world of journalism in the digital age.
The event will be held at one of our favorite venues,
Housing Works Bookstore, at 126 Crosby Street (between Houston and Prince) in New York. After the panel, there will be a booksigning and reception hosted by The Overlook Press.
Joining
Alan Cowell will be:
Chrystia Freeland, global editor-at-large of Reuters News;
John Darnton, award-winning journalist and bestselling author of
Almost a Family and
Black and White and Dead All Over; and
Peter Godwin, author of
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa and
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun and former foreign correspondent.
The Paris Correspondent, just published this week, chronicles the fortunes, adventures, and epiphanies of two journalists, Ed Clancy and Joe Shelby, reporters for The Paris Star, an English-language newspaper based in Paris. Survivors of countless missions abroad, they now face new and unfamiliar challenges of the Internet age and twenty-four-hour news cycle. Personal jealousies and rivalries abound as the two men adapt to the brave new world.
Alan S. Cowell has been senior correspondent for New York Times.com in Paris since 2008. He began his journalism career as a reporter for British newspapers and the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. He joined Reuters in 1972 and the New York Times in 1981. His reporting has covered Turkey, the Middle East, central and southern Africa, Greece, Egypt, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. In 1985, Cowell won the George Polk Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting. He is the author of Killing the Wizards, A Walking Guide: A Novel and The Terminal Spy: The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko.
Deo is playing soccer with his friends when the soldiers arrive in Gutu. “You voted wrongly at the election,” the commander tells the villagers. “You were not thinking straight. That is why the president sent me.”
The first villager to be beaten is Deo’s grandfather. The second villager to be beaten is Deo’s mentally disabled older brother, Innocent. Soldiers drag Innocent out of the village; other soldiers beat the rest of the villagers. Deo manages to escape and find Innocent, but soon he realizes that they have no choice but to flee Zimbabwe. All Deo and Innocent have with them are Innocent’s Bix-box, in which Innocent stores his most important possessions, and Deo’s homemade soccer ball, stuffed with bill after bill of near worthless Zimbabwean currency.
Running to South Africa will not be easy.
And once in South Africa, how will they manage to survive? Innocent is childlike, sometimes prone to fits, and poor South Africans all over the country are seething with resentment against refugees like Deo and Innocent.
Now Is the Time for Running (originally published in South Africa under the title The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball) is a work of fiction, but is based on the experiences of three refugees from Zimbabwe whom Michael Williams met in South Africa. It’s vividly told in Deo’s first-person present tense narration, at first with filled with urgency as Deo and Innocent try to reach South Africa. As the story goes on, Deo’s voice changes–still recognizably his, still gripping, but impacted by what happens to him after that day in Gutu.
At less than 230 pages, Now Is the Time for Running is quite short, but the brevity does not decrease its power. On the contrary, I think this makes the story even more immediate, as Williams thrusts the reader directly into Deo’s life, explaining little more than what is needed to understand Deo’s situation.
An Author’s Note at the end of the book helpfully gives more insight into the origins of the story as well as the climate of xenophobia in South Africa. However, I do wish a map of Zimbabwe and South Africa were included in the book, as well as a note about Zimbabwe.
For readers who want to learn more about Zimbabwe, I highly recommend reading Peter Godwin’s The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe. Godwin, an author and journalist who was born and raised in Zimbabwe, returned there in 2008 soon after the presidential election. Mugabe, the country’s longtime dictator, lost the election but refused to give up power. The Fear is a personal account of Zimbabwe–of Godwin’s and his sister’s return to the places they once lived, but most of all, the appalling, disturbing, inspiring, and courageous experiences of people who remain. It’s not an easy book to read, since among those Godwin gives voice to are Zimbabweans who were arrested and tortured. Yet Godwin’s writing is passionate and vital, and so is The Fear.
So is Now Is the Time for Running.
Book source: public library.
Cross-posted at Guys Lit Wire.
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