PEN World Voices festival: what can novelists do to help the refugee crisis?
Marlon James, Sunjeev Sahota, Laila Lalami and Maaza Mengiste discussed the subject of dislocation and how to ‘sit in the discomfort’ of refugees’ stories More
The PEN Ten with Marlon James
"Writers do have a collective purpose, and that’s to write. I think we writers have managed to convince ourselves that that's not enough. Why is that? Writing can actually… More
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Join us for a FREE #PENOutLoud and @LIVEfromNYPL event on 10/7 with Wole Soyinka in conversation with Farah Jasmine Griffin about his first novel in nearly 50 years. Register: https://bit.ly/3lpKpJG. https://lat.ms/3ubkj1l
