Vulture’s 2014 Pop-Culture Gift Guide
Find something for every art and culture obsessive on your list with this selection of books, Blu-rays, albums, and a couple of big-ticket oddballs we couldn't help but throw… More
Notes to self: from Philip Roth to Gillian Flynn, authors look back at their work
What is it like to reread Portnoy’s Complaint at 80? What inspired the name of the town in Gone Girl? Writers from Philip Roth to Gillian Flynn and from… More
Watch: PEN DIY with Justin Vivian Bond
Watch Justin Vivian Bond give a crash course in the art of improv and creating a character in five steps. 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
The Three Things You Learn When Famous Writers Reread Their Old Books
For the beguiling First Editions, Second Thoughts project, PEN America asked 61 writers and 14 artists to annotate their early works for a Dec. 2 auction at Christie’s New… More
PEN American Center’s First Edition / Second Thoughts Auction Includes Works We Could Only Dream of Owning
Literature-lovers anywhere: If you’re planning a trip to New York City anytime soon, make sure it falls around the end of November. The organizers of PEN American Center’s First Edition… More
First Editions / Second Thoughts: A Book Collectors Dream Auction to Benefit Pen America
The goal of the Pen American Center is simple and to be supported at all cost: To defend freedom of expression and to celebrate the literature that such freedom makes… More
Roth ‘Shocked and Pleased’ Rereading Portnoy
“Rereading ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ 45 years on, I am shocked and pleased: shocked that I could have been so reckless, pleased that I was so reckless,” Philip Roth recently scrawled… More
Cover Model
T: The New York Times Style Magazine just sent us a sneak preview of their newest cover model: Philip Roth. He’s in handsome company, perhaps dangerously so. The last guy… More
Old Books, New Thoughts
In an original essay, Philip Roth considers the experience of rereading his classic novel “Portnoy’s Complaint,” first published 45 years ago, in 1969. Six other authors, including Lydia Davis,… More