Talk:PEN America

message: Should we start a separate page for the PEN USA (Los Angeles) center? I bet many people would assume the two are the same, if they don't know the different cities involved. (I didn't know this and sent several links to this page by mistake....) Aristophanes68 (talk) 01:27, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm kind of wondering if all the PENs shouldn't be merged into one article?Athene cunicularia (talk) 01:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

text: The PEN American Center (New York) unified with PEN Center USA (= Los Angeles branch) under the umbrella of PEN America in 2018.  --Recherchedienst (talk) 13:46, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  PEN American v. PEN USA 

message: Shouldn't this article be included in the Literature Project? Aristophanes68 (talk) 15:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  portal/project? 

message: The third paragraph at the moment includes Thomas Mann and Salman Rushdie among a list of "leading lights in the American literary establishment". I don't think that description can be applied to either of them. But I haven't tried to correct it, because I don't know what point the writer is trying to make here. But if nothing else we should just remove their names from the list. Robfuller (talk) 23:08, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US claiming European writers 

message: With an intensive research on the topic, I have expanded the article adding a new  section "Involvement in Theater", and have added references to reliable third party sources. Moreover, I have standardized the article using Template:Infobox_organization
I have removed the tag  posted by User:Robofish, stating the lack of Secondary and reliable references to the article.
Salman Gurung 10:37, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated the article with Infobox, References and Content 

message: I've created a new list-of article - List of PEN literary awards - to aggregate all the PEN center awards into a single page for easier viewing and reference from various articles. I've also removed the detail about the 2011 winners since it's too long and detailed to track that sort of info on this page. Suggest that if that sort of thing is wanted to mirror the 2011 Pulitzer Prize article, but two cautions: 1. Will need abundant third-party sources that discuss the awards, not just repeating the list of winners, but actual critical commentary. 2. It would make sense to pursue if you plan on making these pages going back in history not just for 2011-2012, it would be a lot of work. Green Cardamom (talk) 17:40, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of PEN awards 

message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdQcusxaBEY
According to this clip from a 1986 "Firing Line," Mailer was "The President of PEN." I don't know if that was PEN Intl. or The US PEN??? However, I remember that time quite well and Mailer was very involved with the organization, raised a lot of money, and, in 1989, persuaded Stephen King to threaten Barnes and Noble Books stores with "pulling" all his best sellers if B&N did not prominently display Salman Rushdie's _Satanic Verses_ in all its stores. I think you need to include Mailer on this page and do more research on his role in the organization. Thanks. johncheverly 03:57, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norman Mailer??? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Regarding:
: The $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award is currently the top award given by PEN America, and among the largest literary prize in the United States.
See List of richest literary prizes. Eight US-based literary awards over $100,000 .. this doesn't count awards under $100,000 so there may be more in the $75-$99,000 range. Overall I don't think any award under $100 really qualifies as "among the largest" and the LA Times article neglects to mention these other higher awards so it doesn't seem very reliable for this factoid.  -- GreenC 02:07, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[PEN/Jean Stein Book Award]] 

message: They both say that they are the same thing, I bet people would appreciate the merging of the two.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RaiBrown1204 (talk • contribs) 19:10, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: "PEN American Center" → PEN America (new name). PEN America (restored original version) → PEN America (journal). --Recherchedienst (talk) 13:29, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge wiki/PEN_America and wiki/PEN_American_Center 

message: Suzanne Nossel is listed on C-SPAN on Aug 22, 2020 as the CEO and President of PEN America  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.36.75.34 (talk) 21:44, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  CEO and President 

message: I noticed under the See Also section a link for "List of lawsuits involving Donald Trump#Lawsuits around the United States Constitution". How is this connected? I'd assume it was vandalism if not for the fact the change dates to last year at least. Delete? 04:06, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trump Connection? 

message: Is this an acronym?  It's capitalized but not introduced anywhere in the article.  Valgrus Thunderaxe (talk) 16:31, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: From https://pen.org/about-us/ :  Schazjmd (talk) 16:57, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

text: That info is also documented in the History section of the article. Schazjmd (talk) 16:59, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  PEN 

message: This is currently noted as "Eastern Half of USA".  I'm guessing this harks back to the formerly separate LA center, and should now be the whole USA?  109.255.211.6 (talk) 109.255.211.6 22:05, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Region served"