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
Conversation: Caryl Phillips & Abdulrazak Gurnah
Caryl Phillips and Abdulrazak Gurnah discuss immigration and dual identities during a conversation which took place at the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Carolin Emcke & Mark Danner
Carolin Emcke in conversation with Mark Danner at the event Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Duong Thu Huong with Robert Stone & Antoine Audouard
Duong Thu Huong and Robert Stone discuss accepting the fate of a trouble-maker, writing as a moral imperative, and truth and beauty at Conversations in the Library, part of… More
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: Carmen Aristegui, Jose Luis Martinez, and Rocio Gallegos
Carmen Aristegui, Jose Luis Martinez, and Rocio Gallegos take part in a conversation moderated by Julia Preston at the PEN event State of Emergency: Censorship by Bullet in Mexico. More
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