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Salman Rushdie’s New Novel Turns a Spotlight On the Enduring Power of Stories

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By: Suzanne Trimel | January 31, 2023

The publication of a new novel by Salman Rushdie is always a high point on the literary calendar and Victory City, due out Feb. 7, brings added celebration, joy,… More

PEN Podcast: Margaret Atwood Reads “The Tent” and “A Poor Woman Learns to Write”

PoetryNovember 19, 2015

Canadian poet, novelist, critic, essayist, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood attempts to answer the question "Does writing change anything?" More

PEN Podcast: Neil Gaiman Performs at An Evening with the Moth

PerformanceNovember 9, 2015

In celebration of his birthday tomorrow, the PEN Podcast features Neil Gaiman telling a story during An Evening with the Moth, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More

PEN Podcast: Zadie Smith Reads from On Beauty

FictionOctober 23, 2015

Our PEN Podcast features Zadie Smith reading from her novel "On Beauty" at the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More

PEN Podcast: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on the world in 2050

SpeechOctober 19, 2015

To celebrate Mashujaa Day, a holiday to honor all those who contributed to the struggle for Kenya's independence, today's PEN podcast features Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's predictions for where the… More

2015 World Voices Festival Opening Night: Tom Stoppard (audio)

PEN World VoicesAugust 24, 2015

"We are not trapped in our narrative." More

Prayer and Meditation with Brenda Shaughnessy (audio)

PEN World VoicesJuly 27, 2015

"I divide my time between a fuzzy, word-averse sadness, and being stunned into silence as a worldview." Poet Brenda Shaughnessy participated in Prayers and Mediation at the 2015 World… More

From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom (Video)

ConversationJuly 9, 2015

Yale University’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom reflects back on his life-long love… More

From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom (audio)

ConversationJuly 9, 2015

Yale University’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom in conversation with Paul Holdengräber at the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom reflects back on his life-long love… More

Charlie Hebdo and Challenges to Freedom of Expression (audio)

PanelJuly 7, 2015

Charlie Hebdo's Editor-in-Chief Gerard Biard and film critic Jean-Baptiste Thoret, in conversation with Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN American Center, and Ed Berenson, NYU's Director of the Institute… More

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Outstanding piece by @andreacgore, Vacek Chair in pharmacology/professor of psychology at UT-Austin, defending faculty tenure against SB 18. She argues that immunotherapy would not exist if UT-Austin had not given tenure to its discoverer. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/university-texas-andrea-gore-professor-tenure-17816783.php

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