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Interview
Writer in her milieu
An interview with Doreen Fernandez Professor, critic, and scholar Doreen G. Fernandez has been cited as many a student's inspiration, many a writer's model, and many a restaurateur's rainmaker. But among her many roles, there is only one that she cannot live without—as she tells Clinton Palanca.

Features
Never on a Saturday
Derided as "wall-eyed" and unsophisticated, this gathering of artists survives their critics by going about their business. Justine Camacho goes "jamming" with the Saturday Group and finds that theirs is definitely not a group of Sunday painters.

Just go!
One of the most influential figures in the travel industry, Maureen Wheeler, talks with Becky Kho and Kristine Fonacier about Lonely Planet's legendary beginnings, millennial travel, and the future of their publishing house.

Workshop
Webscrawler
Writing for the World Wide Web
A former e-zine editor, Kristine Fonacier celebrates the medium while raising caveats about the message.

Freedom of the Web
Self-publishing on the Internet
It is a self-publisher's wet dream, a medium where the cost of "printing" a 1,000-page novel or a ten-line poem is all but the same. Javier V. Rufino delves into the promises and pitfalls for writers on the Web.

Politics
Of photographs and country roads
The idyllic photographs of a Philippines past portray a country and a people lost not just to the memory but to the imagination of latter-day Filipinos. Archivist, curator, and historian John Silva reflects on the ironies of forgotten photographic subjects and the themes that connect them to an amnesiac present.

Playing with quicksilver
The Girondist wrestles with the ghosts of Hitler and Ferdinand Marcos, and the challenges faced by biographers enamored of their subjects.

Frame
Of photographs and country roads
The idyllic photographs of a Philippines past portray a country and a people lost not just to the memory but to the imagination of latter-day Filipinos. Archivist, curator, and historian John Silva reflects on the ironies of forgotten photographic subjects and the themes that connect them to an amnesiac present.

Playing with quicksilver
The Girondist wrestles with the ghosts of Hitler and Ferdinand Marcos, and the challenges faced by biographers enamored of their subjects.

Poetry
Poems by Julius Sering Clar, Joe Bert G. Lazarte, Reine Arcache Melvin, and L. Lacambra Ypil

Fiction
Pyramid
by Carlos Cortés

Palanca Awards Section
The Sounds of Sunday
by Kerima Polotan

Essays
Abort, retry, ignore?
PEN & INK editor in chief Clinton Palanca expounds on the interplay between text and technology and how critics contend.

Cahiers de Paris
With ninety days on her visa, a returning journalist weathers an emotional storm in the City of Lights.

Under the volcano
PEN & INK corresponding editor Ubaldo Stecconi wonders why he is not interested in a very interesting town in one of the most interesting regions of the world.

Reviews
Reviews of Balat ng Dagat, A Philippine Album: American Era Photographs, and Felix Resurrection Hidalgo and the Generation of 1872

Backspace
Elements of Style
by Amando Doronila

 

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