Mark Z. Danielewski and Rick Moody in Conversation
Mark Z. Danielewski and Rick Moody in conversation at PEN World Voices 2009. More
Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti
Dany Laferrière and Madison Smartt Bell discuss the Haitian literary scene and the way in which the multilingual and multicultural contexts of Haiti have affected their experience as writers… More
Conversation: Libba Bray and Nick Burd
Libba Bray interviews Nick Burd about his debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary as part of a series of podcast interviews that took place at the 2009 Brooklyn… More
Conversation: Mo Willems and Libba Bray
Libba Bray interviews Mo Willems, writer and animator, about his upcoming projects as part of a series of podcast interviews that took place at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival. More
International Noir
ROBERT POLITO: Noir is commonly thought of as an American genre, if it’s in fact a genre. The films “noir” was first used to describe back in the 1940s… More
Postcolonial Passages: Assia Djebar & Lyone Trouillot
"Postcolonial Passages," with Assia Djebar and Lyone Trouillot, appears in PEN America 7: World Voices. This talk was presented, in slightly different form, at the 2005 PEN World Voices… More
Power Struggles: Tsitsi Dangarembga & Achmat Dangor
I think one learns early where one’s place in life is meant to be and one has to decide whether to occupy that place or not. Luckily, my parents… More
Reinventing Home
MICHAEL ONDAATJE: In Purple Hibiscus, on the acknowledgments page at the end, there’s a wonderful sense of community—I almost want you to read that because it feels like part… More
Enormous Changes: Ha Jin & Eliot Weinberger
ELIOT WEINBERGER: Your life has had such an amazing trajectory from semi-literate Chinese soldier to distinguished American novelist in such a short amount of time. You joined the army… More
In Search of the Sensual: Hanan al-Shaykh & Salman Rushdie
One of the sad things about the modernist way is that there’s a disconnect with the old tradition. The same thing happened in India. There are old temples with… More
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