The PEN Ten with Ben H. Winters
"Fiction is built out of the day-to-day stuff of life, words and people and events, but it’s different and it’s meant to be different. So our collective purpose is… More
2015 PEN Translation Prize: Four Questions for Winner Denise Newman
"The great pleasure of translating is being able to enter into the timelessness of the text...there’s comfort in such concentrated work. It must be the language equivalent of what… More
The PEN Ten with Joy Harjo
"I have to take care of what I was given. I am aware of carrying a gift that belongs to my people. It doesn’t belong to me. It’s ancient… More
The PEN Ten with Jack Livings
"[Tell] it straight, tell it slant—just tell all of it. Anything that can be done on the page, probably should be. It doesn’t matter whether or not we, as… More
PEN DIY: Bob Morris on How to Deal with Regret
Bob Morris took to the stage in early June at the Ace Hotel to launch his new memoir, Bobby Wonderful, an “introspective, yet humorous look at the final journeys… More
The PEN Ten with Khaled Mattawa
"Being uninhibited is not the only imaginative state that artists should seek to be all the time." More
The PEN Ten with Sebastian Rotella
"I’m obsessed with urban neighborhoods, the ideas of identity and tribe that shape and are shaped by them, the hope, conflict, and heartbreak of the ethnic, racial, and socio-economic… More
The PEN Ten with A Yi
"Although writers are like any other people, they are a small being in the real world, and can easily be manipulated or used, but they should always have the… More
The PEN Ten with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
"Are they influences? My obsessions are numerous and varied and therefore lead me to my greatest obsession: to be still, to know silence within, to be so still that… More
The PEN Ten with Dorothy Tse
"Every word becomes dangerous when words fall into a wave of social movements." More
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