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The PEN Ten: An Interview with Isabel Waidner

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By: Aleah Gatto | February 2, 2023

Sterling Karat Gold deliberately blurs conventional boundaries between what counts as real and as imagined. More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Franny Choi

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By: Alejandro Heredia | January 26, 2023

Only good long-form writing can hold you in contact with someone else’s interiority, their motivations, their makeup, for hours or days or weeks. More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Saket Soni

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By: Nancy Vitale | January 24, 2023

Only good long-form writing can hold you in contact with someone else’s interiority, their motivations, their makeup, for hours or days or weeks. More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Oindrila Mukherjee

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By: Lili Stern | January 19, 2023

No matter where you live or where you grew up or where you were issued a passport, in the end we all experience the same emotions. My wish for… More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Jamila Minnicks

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By: Jared Jackson | January 12, 2023

Writers document and correct the record, both past and present. Language is a powerful choice of weapon because it preserves our history and frames our resistance. More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Deena Mohamed

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By: Sabir Sultan | January 10, 2023

To me, the function of speculative fiction and magical realism, the joy of inserting fantasy in mundane urban reality, is to consider the implications of how it might function… More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Rešoketšwe Manenzhe

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By: Sabir Sultan | December 15, 2022

I think art, in general, is important for society, to nurture the softer aspects of what makes us human. More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kimberly Nguyen

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By: Jenn Dees | December 8, 2022

I believe that fiction is a mask, and the truth lurks somewhere underneath. More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kavita Das

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By: Jared Jackson | December 1, 2022

I’ve encountered people who are unhappy and uncomfortable with the revelations in my work but they are usually interested in maintaining the status quo and so therefore are not… More

The PEN Ten: An Interview with Kristín Ómarsdóttir

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By: Lili Stern | November 17, 2022

I was inspired by our contemporary times and the growing possibility of this world's end. The story is told from some distance, from the future. It tells of events… More

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