Protecting Privacy, Challenging Secrecy & Standing Up for the First Amendment
Panel discussion between Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, George Christian, Janet Nocek, Mark Feldstein, Brian Ross, Richard Esposito, and James Risen at the 2006 event Protecting Privacy, Challenging Secrecy &… More
2005 State of Emergency: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention & Extraordinary Rendition
With Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Martín Espada, Philip Gourevitch, Jessica Hagedorn, Heidi Julavits, Nicole Krauss, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Grace Paley, Emma Reverter,… More
The Writer’s Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya & Russia?s Forgotten War
PEN American Center, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, CUNY, present an evening of readings from Anna Politkovskaya's work and a… More
Literature of Color: Myth or Reality?
Discussed: literature of color as both myth and reality; personal experience vs. universal truth; the politics of book covers; the insult and the compromise; the racial geography of the… More
A Tribute to Chinua Achebe: Entire Event
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of his seminal novel Things Fall Apart, PEN hosted a major tribute to Nigerian writer and literary luminary Chinua Achebe, with Chinua Achebe,… More
Michael Cunningham Introduces A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
Michael Cunningham offers opening remarks to the 2008 PEN event A Tribute to Chinua Achebe. More
Andy Borowitz Introduces The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling
Andy Borowitz introduces The Moth: Award Winning Storytelling, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Jonathan Ames Performs “I Called Myself El Cid”
Jonathan Ames performs "I Called Myself El Cid" at The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling, as part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Rian Malan Performs at The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling
Rian Malan tells a story about growing up in South Africa at the The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling as part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Josh Kilmer-Purcell Performs at The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling
Josh Kilmer-Purcell tells a story about summer camp at The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling as part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More