PEN America #11 Launch Party

The new issue of PEN America comes out next week, and to celebrate, PEN is throwing a launch party at Le Poisson Rouge that sounds like a lot of fun. Here’s the official details:

Celebrate “make believe“—and writers who make us believe in the worlds of their own creation—with PEN America, the award-winning literary magazine published by PEN American Center. Join recent contributors including Cynthia Cruz, Said Sayrafiezadeh, and Lynne Tillman to toast the newest issue, “Make Believe.”

Paul Auster and Roxana Robinson will read.

Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY

FREE with cash bar

The issue sounds pretty interesting:

What do you believe? PEN America 11: Make Believe examines—through fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and conversations—the question of belief in all (or many) of its forms. Alesksandar Hemon, Cynthia Ozick, Lynne Tillman, and others imagine books they wish they (or someone else) had written; Sigrid Nunez invents an orphanage full of “rapture children”; and Rivka Galchen pretends to be Lydia Davis and Peter Altenberg. Plus new fiction from Brian Evenson and Roxana Robinson; poetry by Reza Baraheni, Marie Ponsot, and Liu Xiaobo; notes from a manifesto by David Shields—and much, much more.

You can find the complete table of contents by clicking here.