From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom (Video)
Yale University’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom reflects back on his life-long love… More
From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom (audio)
Yale University’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom reflects back on his life-long love… More
Africa in Two Acts (video)
Africa stepped into the spotlight for this two-part event designed to reveal hidden literary and political realities. More
Queer Futures (video)
Informative and inspirational, this conversation surveyed the landscape of the burgeoning African gay rights movement and the role of literature in this struggle for human rights. More
Transcript of Three Percent Podcast no. 91: “Translators, Rates, Money, and Unions”
Czech translator and PEN Translation Committee cochair Alex Zucker sits down with Three Percent to discuss the business side of international literature in English. More
PEN DIY: “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines D.I.Y., or Do-It-Yourself as “the activity of doing or making something […] without professional training or assistance.” Writers across time have applied this idea to… More
PEN DIY: How To
We enter the world without an instruction manual. Parents and teachers impart what they're able; we intuit life lessons from Balki or Brenda or Kramer; we emulate boy bands;… More
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