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
Obsession: Masha Gessen on Citizen-Victims
Sometimes a thought just won't go away. For Masha Gessen, the unrelenting thought is this: Those who live in a totalitarian state are like victims of abuse. The acclaimed… More
Conversation: Art Spiegelman & Marjane Satrapi
The authors in conversation at the 2005 event Foreign Exchanges: Art Spiegelman & Marjane Satrapi. More
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis and Chicken with Plums
Using animation, film, and the graphic novel, the peerless Marjane Satrapi combines political history and memoir to depict a country’s upheaval through the story of one family. More
Conversations in the Library: Zadie Smith and Kurt Anderson
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
In Conversation: Herta Muller and Claire Messud
In her first New York appearance in over a decade, after a reading from her forthcoming novel The Hunger Angel, Müller will be interviewed by another literary titan, Claire… More
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem kick back and talk about Just Kids and some of their shared passions, including the visual arts, literature (of course) and their love for… More
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