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From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom (Video)
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)
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)
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
Jonathan Safran Foer Reads Quotes from President George W. Bush
Jonathan Safran Foer reads quotes from President George W. Bush from the 2004 PEN event State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings. More
Highlights from the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony
This video takes a look at some of the moving, funny, and inspiring acceptance speeches of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony. More
Alienation
Join George Conrad, Toni Morrison, Jiri Grusa, Salman Rushdie, Heberto Padilla, Derek Walcott and Susan Sonntag at the 1986 PEN Congress discussing the nature of Alienation and the State… More
Writing in a Racialized Society
Join PEN America for a seminal panel discussion with Hazel Carby, Paula Giddings, Toni Morrison, Cornel West, and John Edgar Wideman discuss the challenges, exaltations, perspectives and narratives of… More
Watch: PEN DIY with Bob Morris
To celebrate the launch of his memoir "Bobby Wonderful," author Bob Morris took to the PEN DIY stage to round off the DIY season with a poignant and funny… More
An Evening of Forbidden Books
Join Donald Barthelme, Richard Gilman, Thomas Gates, Jack Gilford, Richard Gilman, Andre Gregory, Margaret Hamilton, Nat Hentoff, Jamake Highwater, John Irving, Erica Jong, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Grace Paley, Estelle… More
Armenian Genocide: A Dark Paradigm with Ronald Grigor Suny (audio)
This panel discussed the Armenian Genocide and its significance as a "dark paradigm" for later attempts by governments to silence writers and cultural leaders. More
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