2014 PEN Literary Gala: PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award: Salman Rushdie
On May 5, 2014, Salman Rushdie received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award in celebration of the 10th anniversary of his founding of the PEN World Voices Festival; introduction… More
PEN Literary Gala 2014: 2014 Digital Freedom Award: Twitter
On May 5, at PEN's 2014 Literary Gala, Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter, received the inaugural PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Digital Freedom Award for bringing new forms of… More
PEN Literary Gala 2014: Opening Remarks: Peter Godwin
Peter Godwin, President of PEN, makes opening remarks at the 2014 PEN American Center Literary Gala on May 5, 2014. More
Workshop—Deborah Solomon: How to Conduct an Interview (audio)
Deborah Solomon, a biographer of American artists who had a second career as the longtime "Questions For" columnist at the New York Times Magazine, will reveal her secret strategies… More
Jive Poetic reads at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the PEN World Voices Festival present a May Day literary celebration that features Kenyan political cartoonist Gado, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, participants from the… More
Davidson Garrett reads at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the PEN World Voices Festival present a May Day literary celebration that features Kenyan political cartoonist Gado, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, participants from the… More
Natasha Trethewey reads at the The Nuyorican Poets Cafe (audio)
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the PEN World Voices Festival present a May Day literary celebration that features Kenyan political cartoonist Gado, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey, participants from the… More
Workshop—Sarah McNally: Why Books Sell (audio)
Sarah McNally, owner of SoHo’s beloved McNally Jackson Books, leads this workshop on the complicated reality of what sells from a number of different angles: the reader navigating a… More
Three Portraits: Artistic Process at World Voices Festival
We asked writer and artist Kate Gavino to capture a few of her favorite moments from this year’s World Voices Festival. Martin Amis, Michael Stipe, and Salman Rushdie… we… More
Global Food: Over the Edge (audio)
Global food has never been the subject of more fierce debates than today. Who should feed the world—agribusiness or small farmers? What will seven billion hungry mouths eat—biotech crops… More
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