Audio + Video
Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage
Neil Gaiman, Isabel Hoving, Janne Teller, and Markus Zusak discuss the theme of "home" and leaving home at the event Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage, part of… More
Margaret Atwood Speaks at Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute
Margaret Atwood delivers a talk about the posthumous life of Don Quixote at Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Uwe Kolbe Reads from Sailor’s Home
Uwe Kolbe Reads from Sailor's Home during a poetry reading which took place at the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Rawi Hage Reads from Cockroach
Rawi Hage reads from his recent book Cockroach at World Nomads Lebanon: Rawi Hage, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Introduction: David Nasaw & Larry Siems
David Nasaw (Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center; Excecutive Director of the Center for the Humanities) and Larry Siems (Director of the Freedom to Write and International… More
Fuad Rifka Reads Translations of His Work
Faud Rifka reads "A Vision", "Civilization", "Hiroshima", "At Night the Sun Also Rises", "August 2, 1984" and "you know that the faraway mountains are always faraway" during a poetry reading which took… More
David Dante Troutt Speaks at The Work Before the Work
David Dante Troutt speaks at The Work Before the Work: A Special Program for High School Students, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Paul Auster Reads from Autopsy Reports of Detainee Deaths
Paul Auster reads from a series of autopsy and death reports of detainees held in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, as part of the 2009 PEN event Reckoning… More
Billy Collins Reads From “The Water-Brooks” and “The Golden Years”
Billy Collins reads from "The Water-Brooks" by Mary Kinzie and his own "The Golden Years" at Green Thoughts: Writers on the Environment, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices… More
Suketu Mehta Introduces The Global City
Suketu Mehta introduces the 2006 PEN event The Global City, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More