Boris Akunin and Walter Mosley: Fiction from Fact
Walter Mosley and Boris Akunin—two venerated authors with sweeping careers that cross cultures, genres, and language barriers—come together for a rare conversation. More
Muslim in America: Ayad Akhtar, Rozina Ali, and Haroon Moghul in Conversation
WNYC's Arun Venugopal hosts the conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, writer Rozina Ali of The New Yorker and Cairo Review, and Haroon Moghul, author of The Order… More
In Conversation: Vladimir Sorokin and Keith Gessen
In today's PEN Podcast, we feature a conversation between n+1 co-editor Keith Gessen and Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin. Sorokin's novel The Blizzard was recently longlisted for PEN's 2016 Literary… More
The Passion of Elena Ferrante
In today’s #PENpodcast, Ann Goldstein, New Yorker editor and translator extraordinaire, discusses how she goes about translating a writer who uses different registers of language as a theme of… More
Ayana Mathis Reads Guantánamo Diary – “In the Koran
Ayana Mathis reads "In the Koran" from Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir Guantanamo Diary. More
Watch: PEN DIY with Erica Jong
Erica Jong opened the 2015 PEN DIY season with a passionate talk on how to write the book of your heart. More
Obsession: Masha Gessen on Citizen-Victims
Sometimes a thought just won't go away. For Masha Gessen, the unrelenting thought is this: Those who live in a totalitarian state are like victims of abuse. The acclaimed… More
Conversation: Art Spiegelman & Marjane Satrapi
The authors in conversation at the 2005 event Foreign Exchanges: Art Spiegelman & Marjane Satrapi. More
Conversations in the Library: Zadie Smith and Kurt Anderson
Zadie Smith and Kurt Andersen discuss conceptions of the true world, post–White Teeth guilt and Protestant worry, the benefits of self-reinvention, dead white males, and a defense of gangsta… More
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem kick back and talk about Just Kids and some of their shared passions, including the visual arts, literature (of course) and their love for… More
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