What are the effects of a war waged against art? Established Iraqi-Kurdish journalist, novelist, and literary critic Nawzat Shamdin dives into this in “The Mosul Music Teacher Fighting Extremists with Strength of Strings.” Shamdin tells the […]
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Born in Damascus, Syria in 1968 and now living in Pittsburgh via Chicago, Osama Alomar is one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, and a prominent practitioner of the Arabic al-qisa al-qasira jiddan, the […]
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In this in-depth interview, novelist Anita Desai discusses her childhood of writing and reading, her creative process over the years, her state of hereditary exile, and the complicated perspective on India and the West that it has afforded her.
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The Nobel Laureate and British writer Doris Lessing, who died last week at age 94, authored 54 works, including the seminal piece The Golden Notebook. We look back at Lessing’s life with two clips: a fascinating Bill Moyers interview and a video of Lessing discussing her experiences as a writer.
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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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On January 25 at 7 PM, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh will host a reading featuring two visiting writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program: Fabienne Kanor and Marvin Victor.
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Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman interviews acclaimed novelist Russell Banks, author of “Cloudsplitter,” “Affliction,” and “Lost Memory of Skin.” Banks, a former chairman of Cities of Refuge North America, invited City of Asylum Pittsburgh founders to join the US network.
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