At A Glance: PEN World Voices Festival
The Sixth Annual PEN World Voices Festival came to a conclusion on Sunday. Playing to a full house at New York’s 92nd Street Y, 10 writers, from around the… More
Novelists Don’t Want Faithful Film Adaptations
On Thursday evening novelist Francine Prose (Blue Angel) moderated a lively panel about adapting literature for the movies as part of PEN America's World Voices Festival. Panelists included writers… More
Celebrating Great Writers
The PEN World Voices festival continued over the weekend with more incredible events. Emily Stokes was warmed by the conversation between master novelists Shirley Hazzard and Richard Ford and… More
Pen World Voices Festival : les écrivains s’adaptent à l’écran
Sur une scène de théâtre, des écrivains parlent de cinéma... Jeudi 29 avril au Skirball Center for the Performing Arts de New York, des auteurs français et américains -… More
Rushdie promotes dialogue between US and the world
Salman Rushdie has described America's discourse with the rest of the world as "a dialogue of the deaf.'' So in an effort to address the void, Rushdie founded a… More
PEN World Voices: From N.Y. to your desktop
The PEN World Voices festival is happening right now in new York, and it's a doozy. There are more than 50 events happening across New York City with 150… More
Celebrating World Literature
Patti Smith read poetry, Salman Rushdie talked supermodels as international writers from Estonia to Afghanistan to Mexico gathered to celebrate the PEN World Voices festival. Emily Stokes reports. More
Why We Must Defend Writers
Novelist Margaret Atwood shares her thoughts on the importance of keeping writers free from censorship and the power of stories to move us. On Tuesday night, before a glittering… More
The Quill and the Whale
Tuesday night, the trains weren’t running right. There we were, four New Yorker staffers in uncomfortable heels and bare legs, late for the PEN Literary Gala which, our invitations… More
Sixth Annual PEN World Voices Festival
Bringing together more than fifty distinguished authors from around the world, together with a stellar list of their U.S. counterparts, is the PEN American Center. In Manhattan from April… More
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