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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Maisy Card
“Writing it has to get me worked up. I use fiction as a vehicle to explore real emotions.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Brandon Taylor
“Nothing is ever as it appears in fiction, I think. It’s almost always a composite of different truths.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Paul Yoon
"Nothing else can do what stories can do for me: they are vast, elastic, personal, intimate—it’s all there." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Raquel Almazan
"People need stories the way they need water. Our stories are our culture, our history, and a map for our future." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Danez Smith
"The idea that there is only one kind of poet or one kind of poetry worth listening to is long dead." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Tochi Onyebuchi
"I think in America, the biggest threat to free expression is, paradoxically, American publishing." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Annalee Newitz
"Indeed, survival has been an ongoing preoccupation of mine, in both fiction and nonfiction." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Aleksandra Lun, translated by Elizabeth Bryer
"I think we need them to see our own stories reflected—all of us, even if we don’t know it, are telling a story with our own lives." More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Will Mackin
"Somebody once told me that, with the possible exception of my mom, nobody actually cares if I ever write or publish anything. I find this idea more liberating than… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Amal El-Mohtar
"Cultivate compassion for your own work, for its flaws and limits. Let yourself love your work even as you labour to improve it." More