Sampsonia Way magazine poses 15 questions to Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Tyrant Memory, his latest novel, and former writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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This poem, from his book The Gathering of My Name, is Cornelius Eady’s response to Sampsonia Way‘s request for a personal story that spoke of his belief in Cave Canem, the organization of African-American poets he co-founded with fellow poet Toi Derricotte.
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In this interview conducted by poet Roman Antopolsky, translator Eliot Weinberger questions that the oft-quoted statistic that in the United States books in translation make up approximately 3 percent of the literary marketplace.
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In this video, Gary Shteyngart reads an excerpt from his 2010 novel Super Sad True Love Story. Shteyngart visited Sampsonia Way on May 11 of 2011 to give a reading at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Khet Mar, a City of Asylum Pittsburgh writer-in-residence, is on the road with Writers in Motion, a two week study tour of the Mid-Atlantic and the American South, sponsored by the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
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Last week, Brussels, Belgium was an epicenter of international literature and a meeting point for literary freedom of speech. Sampsonia Way’s managing editor, Silvia Duarte, traveled there and met some writers, organizers and representatives from all the organizations in attendance.
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Pittsburgh Magazine featured City of Asylum in its March issue. “Meet the New Neighbors,” by Christine H. O’Toole, is not only a walk on Sampsonia Way, it’s also a glimpse of its writers, neighbors and the magazine that bears its name.
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