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PEN America Town Hall Dec. 13 in NYC: How Can the Publishing Industry be Challenged and Transformed to Represent More Diverse Authors, Readers and Books?

Press ReleaseDecember 6, 2022

PEN America President Ayad Akhtar will give opening remarks. Writer, editor, and publisher Roxane Gay, author Min Jin Lee, publishing veteran Erroll McDonald, and writer and editor Chris Beha… More

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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kyle Lucia Wu

Interview
By: Sandy Mui | November 24, 2021

“Sometimes the scrim of a story allows us to see things with more clarity and empathy—things we might look away from or numb ourselves to in our real lives.” More

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APA Heritage Month: Resistance & Community

Monday, May 24, 2021 – Saturday, May 29, 2021 | 5:00 pm ET
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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List

Recommended Reading

As we mark Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we bring you a list of books that expand upon and amplify Asian Pacific American stories, histories, and authors. More

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The PEN Pod: On Race, Place, and Belonging with Sejal Shah

InterviewJuly 14, 2020

“I’m certainly thinking about kinship. . . What do we owe our neighbors and fellow humans. . . for whom to be alive is a risk?” More

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Across the Asian Americas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List

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This reading list, curated by Kaya Press author Rajiv Mohabir, invites us to reexamine “Asian American” as a complicated category. More

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The PEN Pod: Looking to the Past to Imagine a Better Future with Helen Zia

InterviewMay 27, 2020

“Every Asian American in the United States and people with Asian faces all over the world are experiencing this global pandemic of racism and hatred.” More

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Epic Novels, Sweeping Sagas: An APA Heritage Month Reading List

Recommended Reading

This reading list comes to us from Asian American Writers Workshop Executive Director Jafreen Uddin, and is a continuation of our efforts to amplify Asian American voices in literature. More

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Asian American Voices: An Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List

Recommended Reading

In response to violence directed at individuals of Asian descent, we’ve sought to help amplify contemporary Asian American voices in this reading list. More

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The PEN Pod: Letting Go of Our Illusions with Charles Yu

InterviewMay 6, 2020

“This moment and what I think will be the aftermath of it for a long time, is to actually make very real what has felt real for a long… More

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