Against the Ruins of 9/11 21 Years Ago, Salman Rushdie Appealed to New Yorkers: “Don’t Let Fear Rule Your Life”
His Words Opened an Enduring Path to Cross-Cultural Dialogue By Suzanne Trimel (NEW YORK)—What has changed as a result of the 9/11 attacks? This has been an unceasing point for debate… More
PEN America Launches We Will Emerge, A Multi-Vocal Statement of Solidarity
"We designed this project with a sense of hope, or perhaps a delusion, that somehow we will emerge from this chaos." More
The PEN Pod: On the Importance of Hopeful Thinking and Magic with Chip Rolley
“Look at the program that we put together. Look at the writers who were there. Search out their books; their books can still be bought.” More
PEN America Cancels 2020 World Voices Festival: These Truths Due to COVID-19
We come to this conclusion with heavy hearts but the threat of COVID 19 is a truth we cannot deny and that makes this Festival, as planned, impossible. More
Chimamanda Adichie and Trevor Noah on Cultural Identities
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Trevor Noah discuss straddling multiple cultural identities in this clip from the 2017 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Monkey Business Spring 2016 Launch Event at Asia Society
Join a lively conversation between contemporary Japanese and American authors featured in the international literary journal, "Monkey Business." More
Salman Rushdie: las películas me enseñaron casi tanto como los libros
El escritor Salman Rushdie habló hoy de la influencia del cine en su infancia en Bombay (Índia) y dijo que las películas, que le enseñaron "casi tanto como los… More
Monkey Business: Japan/America Writers’ Dialogue
Join a lively conversation between contemporary Japanese and American authors featured in the international literary journal, "Monkey Business." In conjunction with the PEN World Voices Festival 2016. More
PEN World Voices festival: what can novelists do to help the refugee crisis?
Marlon James, Sunjeev Sahota, Laila Lalami and Maaza Mengiste discussed the subject of dislocation and how to ‘sit in the discomfort’ of refugees’ stories More
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