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
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
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: Jeffrey Eugenides & Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann & Jeffrey Eugenides discuss the making of fiction during a conversation that took place at the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Conversation: Umberto Eco & Adam Gopnik
A conversation between Umberto Eco and Adam Gopnik at the event The Third Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Umberto Eco, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices… 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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