In this segment of The Writer’s Block, Manuel Gonzales, author of The Miniature Wife and Other Tales talks about genre classification, why he writes better when stressed, and his work with the Austin Bat Cave.
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Last October, Hamdy El-Gazzar wrote about Karam Saber, an Egyptian writer who was sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt- and defamation of religion” in his short story collection, Where is God. On March 11, the Beba Misdemeanour Court in Beni Sueif upheld this sentence.
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Cartoonist Pedro X. Molina comments on the continued stability of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro despite weeks of protests.
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In this week’s column Yaghoub Yadali talks about the construction, danger, and humanity of Iranian heroes, past and present.
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Latvian cartoonist Gatis Sluka comments on the threat Russia presents to Baltic countries.
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In this piece cartoonist Sergei Tunin (Russia) notes the withdrawal of attendance from the 2014 G8 summit in Sochi, Russia.
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In February Manuel Gonzales came to City of Asylum Pittsburgh to read from his collection of short stories, The Miniature Wife and Other Tales. In this exclusive video he reads the grisly and hilarious “Cash to a Killing.”
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