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Blind Spot by Teju Cole

Teju Cole

Blind SpotEdward Tyler NahemThursday, February 15, 2018 | 7:30 pm
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from Known and Strange Things

Nonfiction
By: Teju Cole | February 24, 2017

Teju Cole's "Known and Strange Things" is a finalist for the 2017 PEN Jean/Stein Book Award. Here's an essay from the collection. More

Should Bob Dylan Have Won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

October 14, 2016

Teju Cole, Rita Dove, Porochista Khakpour, Neil LaBute, Theresa Rebeck, and others from the literary community weigh in on Bob Dylan's Nobel win. More

Dispatch from the 2016 Calabash Literary Festival

Dispatch
By: Nyasha Laing | August 11, 2016

Calabash makes space for heritage, including local writers and vendors. It offers pit-cooked jerk, salt fish and fried dumplings, and Rastafarian-made ital juices. At the same time, it reaches… More

Over 60 writers join PEN in challenging censorship of Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Press ReleaseOctober 27, 2015

In response to Indonesian censorship of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival opening today in Bali, over 60 writers including Michael Chabon, Teju Cole, Porochista Khakpour, and Colm Tóibín… More

Auster, Franzen, Egan, and More to Xi Jinping on Eve of State Visit: Free China’s Jailed Writers

Press ReleaseSeptember 18, 2015

NEW YORK—As President Obama prepares to welcome Xi Jinping on his first official visit to the United States next week, PEN American Center has released an open letter to… More

PEN World Voices Festival Tenth Anniversary Highlights

PEN World VoicesAugust 1, 2013

Founded in 2005 under the direction of Salman Rushdie, the PEN World Voices Festival has hosted more than 1,400 writers from 78 countries, speaking 56 languages. More

2013 PEN Literary Gala

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | 7:00 pm – 10:30 pm
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In Conversation: Jamal Joseph and Sonia Sanchez

Saturday, May 5, 2012 | 7:00 pm
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