Is Nonfiction Literature?
Colum McCann, Philip Gourevitch, and Norbert Gstrein discuss the role of imagination in writing nonfiction, the role of nonfiction in the writing of fiction, and nonfiction's place in the… More
Is Nonfiction Literature?
Colum McCann, Philip Gourevitch, and Norbert Gstrein discuss the role of imagination in writing nonfiction, the role of nonfiction in the writing of fiction, and nonfiction's place in the… More
Conversation: Richard Ford & Nam Le
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford discusses character, craft, and the writing process with Vientamese-Australian author Nam Le during a conversation that took place at the 2009 PEN World Voices… More
Conversation: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio & Adam Gopnik
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, discusses his life and work with Adam Gopnik in a conversation at the 2009 PEN World Voices… More
Revolutionary Writers: Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine and Yoshihiro Tatsumi discuss the evolution of comics in Japan, the U.S., and around the world at Revolutionary Writers, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Michael Ondaatje & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Part II
Michael Ondaatje asks Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her country in part two of their conversation at the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
East-West Storytelling
Nadeem Aslam, Nam Le, Fuad Rifka, and Antje Rávic Strubel discuss how hybrid culture has replaced the never-existent mainstream and how the short story has evolved. This panel discussion… More
PENPals: A Correspondence with Markus Zusak & Susan Campbell Bartoletti
For me, a book doesn't belong to me; it belongs to the readers. In the case of Hitler Youth, the book belongs to those people who allowed me into… More
Words Without Borders: Every Day in Africa
Marguerite Abouet, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yasmina Khadra, and Uzodinma Iweala discuss the experience of displacement and the emotional locations of language at the event Words Without Borders: Every Day in… More
Short Stories
Etgar Keret, Young-ha Kim, Ingo Schulze, and Abdourahman Waberi discuss short fiction and read their short stories at the PEN event Short Stories, part of the 2008 PEN World… More
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