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The PEN Ten: An Interview with José Vadi
“Writing about my history and those histories I’ve inherited about my family from different family members has allowed me to embrace the missing gaps of the collective familiar timeline.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Steven Reigns
“I identify as a gay man. The experience of growing up as an outsider positioned me to be an observer. I think everything I do is informed by my… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Marisel Vera
“We, Puerto Ricans, must claim the historical truth of our ancestors and our homeland that we can learn about through stories.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kia Corthron
“For artists working in fiction, we have more protection as our work is addressing what has been exposed. . . . The greater peril is self-censorship, which often starts… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Morgan Parker
“I tend to approach truth in my work as a figment, a construction. A lot of that is because it relies on the stringency of linear time, chasing a… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Mirin Fader
“Though [the Antetokounmpo brothers] didn’t have much money, they had each other. They were, in a sense, each other’s refuge.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Ricardo Wilson
“People come to fiction for so many reasons that I only really feel qualified to answer for myself. I come to a practice of reading for the same reason… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Katie Kitamura
“I see the imprint of the author in the book in other ways that are to me more interesting and intimate: in the movement of their mind, in the… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Nawaaz Ahmed
“I think the power of words also comes from what we seek through them, how we make them ours, how we use them to represent something we otherwise cannot… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Matthew Specktor
“Everything is lost, eventually. Everything. Writing remains the only way I know to preserve the world as it vanishes all around us.” More