The FBI Was Never the Same: 1971 Screening and Discussion (video)
Edward Snowden and Private Chelsea Manning are making headlines today, but in 1971, similar revelations of illegal domestic spying were brought to light when a group of radicals broke… More
Opening Night of the PEN World Voices Festival: Adonis (video)
Join an audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe’s most prominent… More
Christopher John Farley at PEN World Voices Literary Safari (video)
Christopher John Farley reads from his novel Game World at the Westbeth Center. More
Fiction and Poetry Reading: Dan Chiasson and Lydia Davis (video)
Dan Chiasson’s fourth poetry collection is Bicentennial (Knopf, 2014). Lydia Davis’s newest title is Can’t and Won’t: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). More
Live Debate: The Fate of Edward Snowden
Leading writers, Amy Davidson and Jonathan Capehar, debate the prospect of clemency for NSA leaker, Edward Snowden. Co-hosted by PEN American Center and the Center on National Security at… More
Free Liu Xia: A Reading and Screening of Never-Before Seen Footage of Detained Chinese Poet
On January 14, writers and supporters gathered in New York City to pay tribute to the poet and artist Liu Xia, who has been under extralegal house arrest since… More
The 2012 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
The 2012 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony was held at CUNYGraduate Center's Proshansky Auditorium on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of PEN American Center. PEN presented 18 awards, fellowships,… More
PEN World Voices Festival Tenth Anniversary Highlights
Founded in 2005 under the direction of Salman Rushdie, the PEN World Voices Festival has hosted more than 1,400 writers from 78 countries, speaking 56 languages. More
Monkey Business: A Cabaret with A Public Space
PEN World Voices joins with Asia Society, A Public Space, and Monkey Business International—the acclaimed English-language anthology of newly translated Japanese writing—for a cabaret-style night of readings, conversation, and… More
PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award: Ayşe Berktay
PEN American Center named Ayşe Berktay, a translator, writer, and activist in Turkey, as the recipient of its 2013 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Berktay, a leading advocate… More
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