Christopher John Farley at PEN World Voices Literary Safari (video)
Christopher John Farley reads from his novel Game World at the Westbeth Center. More
Opening Night of PEN World Voices: Noam Chomsky (Video)
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Fiction and Poetry Reading: Dan Chiasson and Lydia Davis (video)
Dan Chiasson’s fourth poetry collection is Bicentennial (Knopf, 2014). Lydia Davis’s newest title is Can’t and Won’t: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). More
Opening Night PEN World Voices: Sofi Oksanen (video)
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Obsession: Jennifer Boylan on Lost Loves (video)
...or rather lost love. One love. One particular past relationship, from her high school years, which has carved out an enduring nook in author and LGBT activist Jennifer Finney… More
Opening Night of PEN World Voices: Salman Rushdie (video)
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Obsession: Eileen Myles on Spoilage and Ruination of Other Kinds (Video)
New York City's own great and fierce poet opens up about her fear of the constant danger of things going bad or spoiling—and the moral component accompanying this simple… More
Workshop—Susan Choi on The Role of “Place” in Creativity and Storytelling (Video)
Pulitzer-Prize finalist, PEN/W.G. Sebald Award-winner, and expert chronicler of specific moments in time, novelist Susan Choi leads students on an expedition to explore settings in writing. What is the… More
Workshop—John Freeman: This is Where I Was Calling From (Video)
How do emigrant writers differ from immigrant writers? Is there such a thing as global fiction? And what happens when a writer leaves his/her language by choice, picking up… More
What We Talk About When We Talk Rot: Eileen Myles and an Obsession with Spoilage
By Emma Komlos-Hrobsky In her conversation with Mike Albo for the World Voices Festival’s Obsession series, Eileen Myles told this story about her lifelong fixation with spoilage: As a… More