Audio + Video
Video Testimony of Guantánamo Detainees Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul
Former Guantánamo detainees Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul describe their experiences at Guantánamo. The original video was aired at the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies… More
Francisco Goldman Reads from The Long Night of White Chickens
Francisco Goldman reads from his novel The Long Night of White Chickens at The Secret Lives of Cities, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Salman Rushdie Reads Poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Salman Rushdie reads "Campo dei Fiori" and "In Warsaw" by Czeslaw Milosz at the event An Evening Without..., part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Video Testimony of Guantánamo Detainee Omar Deghayes
Former Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes describes his experience at Guantánamo Bay. The original video was aired at the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the… More
Conversation: Rodrigo Fresán & Jonathan Lethem (Entire Event)
Rodrigo Fresán and Jonathan Lethem discuss monolinguistic American writers, narrative emulating collage, the relation of artists to neoteny, and more at the BenettonTalk Young Writers Series, part of the… More
Wayne Koestenbaum Reads from “The Job Application,” “Dostoevsky’s Idiot,” and “The Robber”
Wayne Koestenbaum reads from "The Job Application," "Dostoevsky's Idiot," and "The Robber" at the event A Tribute to Robert Walser, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
The Secret Scripture: Introduction by Roxanne Coady
Roxanne Coady offers introductory remarks to a conversation which took place at the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Péter Esterházy Reads from Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka by Bohumi Hrabal
Péter Esterházy reads from Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka by Bohumi Hrabal at Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State, part of the 2008 PEN World… More
The Secret Scripture: Sebastian Barry in Conversation with Roxanne Coady
Sebastian Barry and Roxanne Coady discuss what sort of communities can evolve between authors, their works and readers during a conversation which took place at the 2009 PEN World… More
Hasan Elahi Reads from Citizen Suarez by Guillermo Verdecchia
Hasan Elahi reads from Citizen Suarez by Guillermo Verdecchia at the event Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices… More