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PEN America Issue 19: Hauntings (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

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PEN America Issue 19: Hauntings (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

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Editor's Note:
This issue considers the people, ideas, places, and emotions that draw us back again and again. In this issue, Edwidge Danticat remembers, Martín Espada goes home, Laura Esquivel cooks, and Joyce Carol Oates does not. With fiction by Serge Brussolo, Kazuki Kaneshiro, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Alissa Nutting, Joseph Roth, Merritt Tierce, Dorothy Tse, and Aurora Venturini; poetry by Seungja Choi, Russell Edson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Camille Rankine, Roger Reeves, Juliana Spahr, and C.D. Wright; nonfiction by Ezekiel Caligiuri, Mona Eltahawy, Aminatta Forna, Jarod Roselló, and Tom Stoppard; conversations with Rashidah Ismaili, Bob Morris, Zanele Muholi, James Risen, Edward Snowden, Abdourahman Waberi, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Kerry Young.

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PEN America is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, PEN America can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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