PEN at 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival

Get ready, book lovers! PEN is excited to be a Programming Partner for the Ninth Annual Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, September 21. Over 100 PEN Members are participating in a variety of talks, readings, and special events throughout the day, and we hope to see you there.

Stop by our PEN table at Booth #410, near the Main Stage at the base of Brooklyn Borough Hall, to hear about PEN’s upcoming campaigns, pick up the latest copy of PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, and speak with staff about Banned Books Week. 

SPECIAL OFFER TO MEMBERS*: Swing by our PEN booth anytime on Sunday to renew your membership and you’ll receive a 20% discount on your annual dues.

And there’s more: This year PEN will host a reading at the Brooklyn Book Festival entitled “Something to Hide,” about the rising problem of surveillance and how it’s affecting creative freedom around the world. Featuring one of Granta‘s “20 Under 40” novelists, Xiaolu Guo, prominent PEN members Robie Harris, Rakesh Satyal, Justin Taylor, and Lynne Tillman, alongside debut novelists Alena Graedon, Vanessa Manko, and Adelle Waldman.

The panel will be held on Sunday, September 21, at St. Francis College Auditorium (180 Remsen Street) at 5:00 p.m.

PEN Members participating in this year’s Festival include:

• Salar Abdoh
• Lorraine Adams
• Emily Anthes
• Paul Auster
• Carrie Barbor
• Marie-Helene Bertino
• Coe Booth
• Ann Brashares
• Monica Brown
• Vikram Chandra
• Tina Chang
• Alexander Chee
• Scott Cheshire
• Jonathan Dee
• Jason Diamond
• Jen Doll
• Mark Doty
• Rita Dove
• Andre Dubus III
• Eliza Factor
• Jules Feiffer
• Joshua Ferris
• Julia Fierro
• Boris Fishman
• John Freeman
• Elizabeth Gaffney
• Rivka Galchen
• Roxane Gay
• Mary Gordon
• Alena Graedon
• Ben Greenman
• Adele Griffin
• Lev Grossman
• Robie Harris
• Matthea Harvey
• Anna Holmes
• A.M. Homes
• Anne Hood
• Marie Howe
• Brigid Hughes
• Siri Hustvedt
• Rashida Ismaili
• Mitchell S. Jackson
• Mira Jacob
• Sean Jacobs
• Mary Karr
• Porochista Khakpour
• Scott Korb
• Susan Kuklin
• Amitava Kumar
• Catherine Lacey
• Jonathan Lee
• Ben Lerner
• Jonathan Lethem
• Phillip Lopate
• Leonard Lopate
• Lisa Lucas
• Fiona Maazel
• Benette Madison
• Vanessa Manko
• Leslie Margolis
• Naja Marie Aidt
• Rebecca Mead
• Dinaw Mengestu
• Christopher Meyers
• Kyle Minor
• Susan Minot
• Bich Minh Nguyen
• Lynn Nottage
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Jenny Offil
• Joseph O’Neill
• Julie Otsuka
• John Parra
• Carl Phillips
• Darryl Pinckney
• Retha Powers
• Francine Prose
• Alice Quinn
• Jeffery Renard Allen
• Phyllis Rose
• Jess Row
• S.J. Rozan
• Salman Rushdie
• Elissa Schappell
• Zadie Smith
• Lorin Stein
• Rene Steinke
• Emma Straub
• Justin Taylor
• Lynne Tillman
• David Ulin
• Anya Ulinich
• Maria Venegas
• Meredith Walters
• Lewis Warsh
• Julia Wertz
• Edmund White
• Brook Wilensky-Lanford
• Adam Wilson
• Tiphanie Yanique
• Rachel Zucker

*If you are unable to attend, you can take part in this offer by emailing [email protected]