Conversations in the Library: Zadie Smith & Kurt Andersen
Zadie Smith and Kurt Andersen discuss conceptions of the true world, post–White Teeth guilt and Protestant worry, the benefits of self-reinvention, dead white males, and a defense of gangsta… More
Conversation: Patrick McGrath & Martin Amis
Patrick McGrath and Martin Amis discuss doubt, Pascal’s approach to faith, a plausible refutation of religion, the nepotistic figure of Christ, hadith and the theological gamble of suicide bombings,… More
Michael Ondaatje & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Michael Ondaatje and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation at the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Michael Ondaatje & Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Part I
Michael Ondaatje asks Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about her novel Purple Hibiscus, following an introduction by Peter Carey, in part one of their conversation at the 2005 PEN World Voices… More
Conversation: Kiran Desai & Vikram Chandra, with Rachel Donadio
Kiran Desai and Vikram Chandra discuss their writing with Rachel Donadio during a conversation which took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Alain Mabanckou & Dany Laferrière, with Anderson Tepper
Alain Mabanckou, Dany Laferrière and Anderson Tepper discuss subverting stereotypes, playing with language, and provoking controversy during a conversation that took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Pico Iyer & Hal Wake
Pico Iyer and Hal Wake discuss traveling and "travel writing" during a conversation which took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Neil Gaiman & Marguerite Abouet, with Sean Wilsey
Best selling author Neil Gaiman and graphic novelist Marguerite Abouet discuss their work during a conversation that took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Per Petterson & Marilynne Robinson, with Radhika Jones
Discussed: how to write without sounding like oneself; the unknown self revealed through strangers; the imagined reader; passion and amnesia; family as a human phenomeon; and readings from Per… More
Conversation: Guillermo Arriaga & Paul Auster
Guillermo Arriaga and Paul Auster discuss screenwriting during a conversation that took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
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