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
Telling the (Whole) Story: Introduction
Sonia Sanchez, Paul Auster, and Elizabeth Nunez offer introductory remarks to the 2005 PEN event Telling the (Whole) Story: Celebrating Writers of Color. More
Margaret Atwood on the Writers’ Mind and the Digital Otherworld
What does it mean to write with the Web? How does our constant access to information and ideas affect the landscape of imagination? What are the ramifications on the… More
Workshop-Tracy K. Smith: The Weight of Objects
Award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith led a conversation on the role of the image in contemporary poetry, examining how poems use sensory details to distort and enlarge our conventional… More
Don DeLillo reads from Mao II
Don DeLillo reads an excerpt from his novel Mao II at the 2011 PEN event Viva the Belarus Free Theater. More
Conversation with Jean-Euphèle Milcé on free expression | PEN American Center
PEN America interviews Haitian author and President of PEN Haiti, Jean-Euphèle Milcé on free expression, the next generation of writers in Haiti, and his new Book. More
PEN Literary Gala 2014: 2014 Digital Freedom Award: Twitter (audio)
On May 5, at PEN's 2014 Literary Gala, Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, received the inaugural PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Digital Freedom Award for bringing new forms of… More
2014 PEN Literary Gala // PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award: Salman Rushdie (audio)
On May, 5 2014, Salman Rushdie received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award in celebration of the 10th anniversary of his founding of the PEN World Voices Festival; introduction… More
2014 PEN Literary Gala: Pussy Riot (audio)
Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, introduced by Suzanne Nossel, at the 2014 PEN American Center Literary Gala on May 5. Interpretation by Nadya's husband, Peter Verzilov. More
2014 PEN Literary Gala // PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award: Ilham Tohti (audio)
Ilham Tohti, Uyghur economist and writer, recieved the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award which is awarded to a currently imprisoned writer each year at the Gala. His daughter… More
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