World Voices Festival: Marlon James
At the 2023 PEN America World Voices Festival, Marlon James is hosting a fireside chat with Nigerian-British writer Ben Okri, followed by a panel on the second novel with… More
World Voices Festival: Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh will discuss the challenge of keeping up with online discourse at her opening night panel at PEN America’s World Voices Festival, “Ottessa Moshfegh Presents: Why Write?" More
Ta-Nehisi Coates at the World Voices Festival
Ta-Nehisi Coates hopes to contextualize the flurry of censorship across the United States in his Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture on May 11 at PEN America’s World Voices… More
Banned in the USA Spotlight: Maia Kobabe
Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer is a coming-of-age graphic novel that has been the most banned in U.S. schools. Kobabe tells PEN America what books like hers mean. More
From Movie Star to Book Translator, Molly Ringwald Makes a Splash (In Pink) at the PEN America Literary Awards
(NEW YORK)— Books aside, some of the chatter among the literary and publishing crowd at PEN America’s Literary Awards ceremony last Thursday night zeroed in on a surprise guest… More
Genre-Defying Author Percival Everett Takes Top PEN America Literary Award
Percival Everett’s body of work has been called many things — experimental, idiosyncratic, “gleefully unhinged” — and perhaps most frequently, prolific. “It’s a tasteless thing to do, but I… More
Paula Vogel on Cancellation of ‘Indecent’
Paula Vogel talks to PEN America about the cancelation of her play, Indecent, at a Florida high school. More
PEN America pays tribute to Russell Banks, a giant of letters and staunch ally
PEN America paid tribute on Monday to novelist Russell Banks, a longtime advocate of free expression and member of PEN America, who died over the weekend at age 82. More
The PEN Ten: 12 Days of Writing Advice
PEN America has been in conversation with authors, poets, and other artists from its inception. This holiday season, we are sharing 12 pieces of writing advice. More
Elizabeth Strout on Writing: ‘Just keep going.’
Elizabeth Strout talks to PEN America about Lucy by the Sea and life as a writer. 'It’s never easy. But sometimes it is fun...' More
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