The 2019 PEN America Literary Awards finalists were announced today. Tara Westover’s Educated: A Memoir was nominated for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel was nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Joshua Rivkin’s Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly was nominated … Continue reading 2019 PEN America Finalists Announced