Workshop—Susan Choi on The Role of “Place” in Creativity and Storytelling (Video)
Pulitzer-Prize finalist, PEN/W.G. Sebald Award-winner, and expert chronicler of specific moments in time, novelist Susan Choi leads students on an expedition to explore settings in writing. What is the… More
Workshop—John Freeman: This is Where I Was Calling From (Video)
How do emigrant writers differ from immigrant writers? Is there such a thing as global fiction? And what happens when a writer leaves his/her language by choice, picking up… More
Reading (and Spelling) to the Death: Literature Gets a Pop-Culture Boost at Literary Death Match
If literature could use, as Adrian Todd Zuniga says, "a boost from pop culture," it got one Wednesday night at his Literary Death Match, part of this week's PEN… More
Opening Night: On the Edge – Salman Rushdie
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
The Bosnia List
“Are you a Bosnian, Yugoslavian or a Muslim?” his younger comrade barked at me. What was I? Was it a trick question? I was baffled how to answer. I… More
Two Poems by Todd Colby
. . .The night is fast approaching, / an almost liquid darkness seeps in over the highway / and invades the room I'm in, until electric light / simmers… More
PEN World Voices Festival Opens ‘On the Edge’
The 10th annual PEN World Voices Festival got underway Monday night with a series of brief politically focused speeches by prominent international writers at the Great Hall at Cooper… More
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending… More
Pussy Riot members to attend May 5 literary gala
Two members of Pussy Riot will be attending a literary celebration that already includes Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Robert Caro on the guest list. More
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