Audio + Video
Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage: Isabel Hoving
Isabel Hoving discusses the notion of "home" at the event Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage, part of the 2007 PEN American World Voices Festival. More
Ben Okri Reads “The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us”
Ben Okri reads his “stoku”—part story, part haiku—“The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us” during a conversation with Vanity Fair’s Anderson Tepper at the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Neil Gaiman on Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage
Neil Gaiman discusses the nature of "home", leaving the home, and children's literature at the event Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage, part of the 2007 PEN American World… More
Ben Okri Reads “As Clouds Do Drift”
Ben Okri reads “As Clouds Do Drift”—a poem he wrote for Twitter—during a conversation with Vanity Fair’s Anderson Tepper at the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Janne Teller Discusses Nothing
Janne Teller discusses and reads from her youth novel Nothing at the event Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage, part of the 2007 PEN American World Voices Festival. More
Aleksandar Hemon Reads Tadeusz Borowski
Aleksandar Hemon reads "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman" by Tadeusz Borowski at the PEN event Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics, part of the 2010 PEN… More
Markus Zusak on Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage
Markus Zusak discusses leaving home and how it affects writing at the event Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage, part of the 2007 PEN American World Voices Festival. More
Major Jackson on Derek Walcott
Major Jackson discusses and reads Derek Walcott's poetry at Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Tatyana Tolstaya Reads from The Slynx
Tatyana Tolstaya reads from The Slynx at Town Hall Readings: Writing Home, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Marcel Möring Reads from Dante’s Inferno
Marcel Möring reads from Dante's Inferno at Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Classics, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
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