2014 PEN Literary Gala // Opening Remarks: Peter Godwin (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
Workshop—Deborah Solomon: How to Conduct an Interview (audio)
Deborah Solomon, a biographer of American artists who had a second career as the longtime "Questions For" columnist at the New York Times Magazine, will reveal her secret strategies… More
Davidson Garrett reads at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the PEN World Voices Festival present a May Day literary celebration that features Kenyan political cartoonist Gado, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, participants from the… More
Natasha Trethewey reads at the The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (audio)
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the PEN World Voices Festival present a May Day literary celebration that features Kenyan political cartoonist Gado, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, participants from the… More
Workshop—Sarah McNally: Why Books Sell (audio)
Sarah McNally, owner of SoHo’s beloved McNally Jackson Books, leads this workshop on the complicated reality of what sells from a number of different angles: the reader navigating a… More
Global Food: Over the Edge (audio)
Global food has never been the subject of more fierce debates than today. Who should feed the world—agribusiness or small farmers? What will seven billion hungry mouths eat—biotech crops… More
Opening Night of PEN World Voices: Judith Butler (Audio)
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Opening Night of PEN World Voices: Salman Rushdie (video)
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
PEN Members Reading at Paradise Banned Event
On Monday, September 30, PEN partnered with the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression for readings in celebration of PEN's Banned Book Month. Reading the poets whose work have been… More
Dot Devota: Three Poems
Dot Devota reads three poems from MW: A Field Guide to the Midwest, a selection of which first appeared in the PEN Poetry Series. More
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