PEN DIY Relaunches with Erica Jong, Amanda Palmer, and Jennifer Weiner
PEN is relaunching its DIY series with Erica Jong, Jennifer Weiner, and Amanda Palmer headlining our first three events at The Ace Hotel’s Liberty Hall. More
PEN DIY: Wesley Stace on How to Lead a Double Life
Armed with his guitar and a Bulleit on the rocks, the incomparable and prolific Wesley Stace (also known as John Wesley Harding) took the stage on December 1 for… More
Collecting Modernism: Reconsidering
A clever auction in aid of PEN America More
PEN DIY: Justin Vivian Bond on How to Take a Flying Leap
Cabaret messiah Justin Vivian Bond took the DIY stage by storm on November 3rd, giving a loudly appreciative audience a crash course in writing from the gut. More
PEN DIY: Natalie Diaz on How to Sacrifice Your Brother, Even When He is an Aztec
It’s said that losing a language is “like dropping a bomb on the Louvre.” When a language is lost, it’s the people that are betrayed. More
PEN DIY: “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines D.I.Y., or Do-It-Yourself as “the activity of doing or making something […] without professional training or assistance.” Writers across time have applied this idea to… More
PEN DIY: How To
We enter the world without an instruction manual. Parents and teachers impart what they're able; we intuit life lessons from Balki or Brenda or Kramer; we emulate boy bands;… More
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