Comedy Writing in the Age of Trump—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Members of Samantha Bee's writing team Mathan Erhardt, Ashley Black, and Patrick Cassels discuss comedy writing in the age of Trump. More
Women in Ink—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Cartoonists Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Rayma Suprani, and Emily Flake discuss the unique challenges of succeeding in a male-dominated field. More
Gender, Power, and Authoritarianism in the Dystopian Age—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Marge Piercy, Alice Sola Kim, Namwali Serpell, and Jeff VanderMeer discuss gender, power, and authoritarianism. More
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Trevor Noah—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
A discussion on straddling multiple cultural identities between Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Trevor Noah. More
The M Word: Exclusive Interview with W. Kamau Bell
The fact that people are out there practicing their faith out loud in public, openly, and not hiding from it, to me that’s doing it the right way. More
Two Poems by Elisabeth Borchers
Raised without a mother, / the father a drinker. / Once at fourteen, again at sixteen / then off to a facility. / At twenty a third time. /… More
Nancy Morejón and Wild Noise—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Nancy Morejón fearlessly takes on ethnicity, gender, history, politics, Afro-Cuban identity, and the collision of cultures in the “New World” with her poetry. More
Queer Representation and the Media
Jennifer Finney Boylan, Thomas Page McBee, Saeed Jones, and Jennifer Pozner discuss the narratives of LGBTQ issues found–or not seen–in the media. More
Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Leading Russian and American journalist/author Masha Gessen gives the 2017 Freedom to Write Lecture, followed by a longer conversation with Samantha Bee. More
Shattering Taboos to Change Culture—2017 PEN World Voices Festival
Bryony Cole moderates a discussion about the stigma around rape and sexual assault featuring Ram Devineni, Jessica Luther, and Andrea Pino. More