Working Day Notes: The Publishing Revolution is Here
Introduction by Joshua FurstWe’ll examine the current state of publishing and the massive changes it’s going through. The panel of publishers and authors will describe their experiences, and try… More
Conversation: Orhan Pamuk & Margaret Atwood
A conversation between Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood at the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Lila Azam Zanganeh & Atiq Rahimi: Mother Tongue
LILA AZAM ZANGANEH: Atiq, you had written three novels in Persian, and then you switched from Persian to French for your most recent novel, The Patience Stone, and it… More
Jonathan Lethem & Patti Smith
I would go to rummage sales or church bazaars and pick out books for pennies, for a quarter. I got a first edition Dickens with a green velvet cover… More
Revolutionary Writers: Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine
Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Adrian Tomine discuss the evolution of comics in Japan, the U.S. and around the word during a conversation which took place at the 2009 PEN World… More
Conversation: A. B. Yehoshua and Leon Wieseltier
A. B. Yehoshua and Leon Wieseltier discuss a lifetime in literature, fact in fiction, writing politics, and atonement, a conversation which took place at the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio in Conversation with Adam Gopnik
The New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik interviews French novelist and essayist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio during a conversation which took place at the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Resonances: Writers on the Great Works
Muriel Barbery, Salwa Al Neimi, José Manuel Prieto, and George Packer discuss how writing from the past persists and influences contemporary writers at Resonances: Writers on the Great Works,… More
Coraline, Sandman: Books and Imagination: A Conversation with Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman and Caro Llewellyn discuss imagination, inspiration, and creativity across a dizzying range of genres during a conversation that took place at the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Arnon Grunberg & Yael Hedaya
Arnon Grunberg and Yael Hedaya discuss the pleasures of being in therapy, formalizing pain into art, and television as the "new literature" during a conversation that took place at… More
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