Content tagged with “Aspen Summer Words”
When your life experiences give you both insider cred and outsider status, what kind of perspective do you bring to the page? Get the skinny from two expat writers who are straddling countries and...
Tags: Aspen Writers Foundation, Aspen Summer Words, Mona Eltahawy Masters of the character-driven novel, Colum McCann and Assaf Gavron, compare notes on telling a single story through diverse voices and harnessing the idiosyncrasies of multiple characters - each...
Tags: Aspen Writers Foundation, Aspen Summer Words On the streets of Iran, Tunisia, Egypt and beyond, poems are being used as rallying cries for revolution while social media have become the vehicles for delivering them. Daniyal Mueenuddin and Reza...
Tags: Aspen Writers Foundation, Aspen Summer Words, Reza Aslan For all the attention they receive, the cultures of the Middle East seem to resist understanding in the West. In an interview with Rob Spillman, poet Peter Cole discusses the place of translation...
Tags: Aspen Writers Foundation, Aspen Summer Words Alter Egos is presented by the Aspen Writers Foundation for Aspen Summer Words 2011.
In the tradition of doctor-poet William Carlos Williams, two authors who have hyphenated their time between...
Tags: Aspen Writers Foundation, Aspen Summer Words, fiction Presented by the Aspen Writers Foundation for Aspen Summer Words 2011, this afternoon of on-stage chemistry features friends Khaled Hosseini and Firoozeh Dumas sharing the backstories of their lives...
Tags: Arts, Aspen Writers Foundation, Aspen Summer Words, fiction This year’s festival will celebrate the magical literature of the modern Middle East. Against the backdrop of ancient lands where paper was born and poetry has flourished since days of yore, the...
Tags: Middle East, Aspen Summer Words, Literature, Khaled Hosseini, Firoozeh Dumas, Mona Eltahawy, Rabih Alameddine, Reza Aslan, Daniyal Mueenuddin 
