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Our Town Downtown: Q & A with Larry Siems, Director of Freedom to Write and International Programs
Our Town Downtown, May 28, 2007—In 1921, two years after the First World War, British writers (C. A. Dawson Scott and John Galsworthy) founded the first PEN (poets, playwrights,… More
House of War
The Building looms over the Potomac across sixty years of war and peace, through six decades of memory. A forbidden temple even now, when I am older—imagine how the… More
2007 Literary Awards: David Hinton
David Hinton accepts the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his translation from the Chinese of The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions) at the 2007 Literary… More
Conversation: Vadim Yarmolinets and Larry Siems
Larry Siems and Vadim Yarmolinets discuss freedom of expression in Russia as part of a series of podcast interviews that took place at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival. More
Introduction: David Nasaw & Larry Siems
David Nasaw (Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center; Excecutive Director of the Center for the Humanities) and Larry Siems (Director of the Freedom to Write and International… More
Conversation: David Remnick & Natalia Estemirova
David Remnick in conversation with Natalia Estemirova, human-rights activist and close friend of Anna Politkovskaya’s, at the 2006 event The Writer’s Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya & Russia’s Forgotten War. More
Minae Mizumura: Crossover Artists: Writing in Another Language
"Crossover Artists: Writing in Another Language," with Minae Mizumura and Shan Sa, appears in PEN America 7: World Voices. This conversation was presented, in slightly different form, at the… More
Confronting the Worst: Writing and Catastrophe
PEN America 7: World VoicesWith Svetlana Alexievich, François Bizot, Carolin Emcke, Philip Gourevitch, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and Elena Poniatowska; moderated by Susie Linfield.This talk was presented, in slightly different form,… More
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