The PEN Ten: An Interview with Fariha Róisín
“For me, the relationship between truth, history, and dreams is that I listened to the truth. . . despite the trauma of my personal history to navigate and participate… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Peace Adzo Medie
“Young women are constantly being told to respect men, but society rarely puts the same pressure on men to respect young women. So. . . I decided to write… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Frank Huyler
“I think storytelling, like language, has a biological basis. In a sense, it’s an act of the collective mind, and a uniting force.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Shruti Swamy
“I am joyfully a woman writer, a brown writer. I am interested in the ways these aspects of my identity. . . show aesthetically in my work as well… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Nate Marshall
“At the moments of highest emotional resonance for us, we look toward poetic language to give us something to help encapsulate a large moment.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Morgan Jerkins
“I wanted this book to serve as a living, breathing document to other Black people that in spite of the violences against us, in spite of much time and… More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Laura van den Berg
“Story gives us a way to process and inhabit human experience, to feel things through language that we might be less willing to feel in our own lives.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Peter Meech
“In my novel, I wanted to demystify and deglorify violence, explore the protean nature of identity, and write about transcendence.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Lynn Steger Strong
“Stories, I would argue, force readers to look and see and come to their own conclusions, to reconsider arguments they might consider predetermined.” More
The PEN Ten: An Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Horror as a genre is “the space of shadows on the wall that we stared at before we went to sleep when we were children and the frightful darkness… More
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