PEN World Voices Festival Lineup Revealed
Today the PEN American Center unveiled the schedule for the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature—a New York City-based festival with 150 writers from 40 countries.… More
PEN International Fest Announces Line-Up
Authors will temporarily give up the writing life for the speaking life when PEN American Center launches its weeklong Voices Festival of International Literature on April 26. Familiar literary… More
American Sublime
We want Brasil but Brasil won’t win. Aden waves a desultory green and yellow flag. From the East to the West to the West to the East we scatter and settle and… More
Fabrications
Henry James said that “the terrible whole of art is free selection.” And that’s one of the thrilling things about your work, for me, just seeing where you find… More
Realms of Possibility: A Conversation with Phillip Gourevitch, Norbert Grstein, and Colum McCann
PHILIP GOUREVITCH: I’ve been struck over time that nonfiction writers are often treated the way photographers were treated by the great art museums and art snobs of the early… More
Narcis Comadira: On Evolution/Revolution
Into something rich and strange—William ShakespeareTriumph of LifeSpeak, life, whence do you surge?What powerful urgecan wake your brief corein the most imperceptiblehard residue of stone?From the mineral dust thatstirs,… More
The Crisis and How to Deal with It
Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on… More
Lit Seen: James Hannaham’s God Says No; Mark Z. Danielewski Exposed at PEN Fest
James Hannaham and I decide to meet one rainy Friday afternoon in a polished, low-lit midtown hotel, where the men's bathroom is supposed to be great for cruising. More
Francine Prose et Paul Holdengraber à New York
Francine Prose est membre de la direction du Pen Club et écrivian. Elle a publié en France « Visite guidée de l’Enfer », « Blue Angel », « un… More
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