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In Conversation: Herta Muller and Claire Messud
In her first New York appearance in over a decade, after a reading from her forthcoming novel The Hunger Angel, Müller will be interviewed by another literary titan, Claire… More
Telling the (Whole) Story: Introduction
Sonia Sanchez, Paul Auster, and Elizabeth Nunez offer introductory remarks to the 2005 PEN event Telling the (Whole) Story: Celebrating Writers of Color. More
Amiri Baraka: Our Man Jimmy
This excerpt is part of the Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute to James Baldwin, sponsored by PEN American Center and Lincoln Center, with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture… More
Margaret Atwood on the Writers’ Mind and the Digital Otherworld
What does it mean to write with the Web? How does our constant access to information and ideas affect the landscape of imagination? What are the ramifications on the… More
Ben Greenman reads “Blurbs” and from The Slippage
More than once William had stepped out of the house to collect his newspaper or to water the lawn, and seen at least one other man doing the exact… More
Workshop-Tracy K. Smith: The Weight of Objects
Award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith led a conversation on the role of the image in contemporary poetry, examining how poems use sensory details to distort and enlarge our conventional… More
Don DeLillo reads from Mao II
Don DeLillo reads an excerpt from his novel Mao II at the 2011 PEN event Viva the Belarus Free Theater. More
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation
Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem kick back and talk about Just Kids and some of their shared passions, including the visual arts, literature (of course) and their love for… More
Opening Night Reading: Earl Lovelace (audio)
Earl Lovelace reads from his novel Is Just a Movie at the Opening Night Reading of PEN's 2013 World Voices Festival. More
Conversation with Jean-Euphèle Milcé on free expression | PEN American Center
PEN America interviews Haitian author and President of PEN Haiti, Jean-Euphèle Milcé on free expression, the next generation of writers in Haiti, and his new Book. More