Dalal Mawad | The PEN Ten Interview
For Pilar, her anxieties and insecurities solidify into this belief that she has been cursed. She accepts it as true, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. More
Marcela Fuentes | The PEN Ten Interview
For Pilar, her anxieties and insecurities solidify into this belief that she has been cursed. She accepts it as true, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. More
Matthew Mendoza | The PEN Ten Interview
Place and story are important to me. The best work exists where the amazing and magical meet the sinister. More
Parul Kapur | The PEN Ten Interview
There is always a cost to defiance. The question is whether you can bear it or how you can transcend it. More
‘The Tale of a Wall’ by Nasser Abu Srour | The PEN Ten Interview
In this PEN Ten interview, we talk with the publisher and translator of 'The Tale of a Wall' by Nasser Abu Srour. More
Lisa Grunwald | The PEN Ten Interview
I was looking for a time in American life when things seemed as passionately divided as they do now. More
Michael Arceneaux | The PEN Ten Interview
I’m very clear about what I want to say and how I want to say it when I try to sell a book. You either believe in it or… More
Deborah Jackson Taffa | The PEN Ten Interview
I could only share my family’s trauma if I told it in context, reminding readers that my elders struggled, not because of a moral failure on their part, but… More
Kevin Huizenga | The PEN Ten Interview
I like to be productive, and sometimes being productive means taking an idea you thought up in a previous story, and expanding on it, or turning it around to… More
Remica Bingham-Risher | The PEN Ten Interview
Some of the breakthrough moments came when I decided I would be reckoning not only with my ancestress’s trauma, but also their joy, and how they raised us to… More
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