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Works of Justice: How to Write a Novel in a Month (During a Pandemic)

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This year, the PEN America Prison Writing team had 10 incarcerated writers participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). More

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The PEN Pod: Finding Inspiration in History with Maaza Mengiste

InterviewSeptember 8, 2020

“What writers and novelists force us to do in the work is to pause. . . And if there’s anything that COVID has made me consider, it’s how we… More

Emily St. John Mandel

The PEN Pod: Finding Hope in Endurance with Emily St. John Mandel

InterviewApril 21, 2020

“This is something that our ancestors endured, and something that our descendants will endure, and our society. . . has endured through all of that.” More

Ali Araghi

The PEN Pod: Connecting through Translation with Ali Araghi

InterviewApril 16, 2020

“One function of translation we could think about is the way it shows how literature of other cultures have reacted to similar problems we are dealing with.” More

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The PEN Pod: Mapping the Life Cycle of the Virus with Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell

InterviewApril 13, 2020

“Whenever I have the opportunity to choose a movie, I always try to choose something post-apocalyptic. . . that's even scarier than what we're going through.” More

Ruchika Tomar

The PEN Pod: Recalibrating Our Priorities with Ruchika Tomar

InterviewApril 10, 2020

“The desire that I’m seeing for connection is really heartening, because what we’re doing as writers is responding to human experience.” More

M. NourbeSe Philip

The PEN Pod: In This Together with M. NourbeSe Philip

InterviewApril 9, 2020

“It’s true that we are all in this together, but there’s a sense in which we have not been in this together.” More

Jamie Metzl

The PEN Pod: Reimagining the Future with Jamie Metzl

InterviewApril 1, 2020

“I feel like I’m at war from the battlestation of my office here on 81st Street in New York, so I’m pretty focused on reading what I need to… More

Invisible Cities, Visible Cities

Saturday, May 4, 2013 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
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