With a Rent Battle Behind It, La Sirena Celebrates Its 16th Cinco de Mayo
Every morning, Dina Leor opens her Mexican folk-art store the same way: by lighting sage, burning incense and scattering rose petals. “I feel it affects the store if I… More
Roxane Gay on Lemonade: ‘by the power of Beyoncé, I’ll overcome my fear’
“In Lemonade, Beyoncé is saying here is my truth, here is my life, my love, here is my blackness, here is my history … here is my heart, what’s… More
Washington Square Review Launch Reading: Amy Hempel and Tommy Pico
A reading by contributors to the NYU Creative Writing Program’s nationally distributed literary journal. More
Monkey Business Spring 2016 Launch Event at Asia Society
Join a lively conversation between contemporary Japanese and American authors featured in the international literary journal, "Monkey Business." More
Andrew Solomon Rushes In
When the PEN American Center decided last year to highlight writers from Mexico at its World Voices Festival this spring, no one, including author Andrew Solomon, the organization’s president More
Reclaiming our Narratives: A Conversation with Nigerian Journalist Chike Frankie Edozien
Bred in Lagos, Nigeria, Chike Frankie Edozien grew up to become a journalist and contributed to the 2016 Commonwealth Foundation Creative Nonfiction Anthology. More
Ferrante fever in full swing at the PEN World Voices Festival
Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator, sat in conversation with Judith Thurman, Roxana Robinson and Rebecca Carroll to discuss the author’s work More
Displacement, Borders, Home: Echoes of the Middle Eastern North African and Mexican Experience
This event is part of the Literary Mews 2016: PEN World Voices Festival at NYU More
Greensboro artist’s New York project gets national attention
UNC-Greensboro art professor Sheryl Oring and her students used technology from another era to encourage the public to express themselves to presidential candidates this week at New York’s Bryant… More
CantoMundo Poetry Reading: David Campos, Willie Perdomo, Natalie Scenters-Zapico
David Campos is the author of "Furious Dusk" (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) Willie Perdomo (pictured) is the author of "The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon" More
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