Audio + Video
Workshop—Susan Choi on The Role of “Place” in Creativity and Storytelling (Video)
Pulitzer-Prize finalist, PEN/W.G. Sebald Award-winner, and expert chronicler of specific moments in time, novelist Susan Choi leads students on an expedition to explore settings in writing. What is the… More
Workshop—John Freeman: This is Where I Was Calling From (Video)
How do emigrant writers differ from immigrant writers? Is there such a thing as global fiction? And what happens when a writer leaves his/her language by choice, picking up… More
Opening Night: On the Edge – Salman Rushdie
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Noam Chomsky: On the Edge: Total Destruction (video)
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Opening Night: On the Edge – Sofi Oksanen
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Opening Night: On the Edge – Paul Berman
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Opening Night: On the Edge – Judith Butler
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Opening Night of PEN World Voices: Colm Tóibín
An audience of readers, activists, writers, intellectuals, and lovers of the written word gathered to kick off the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival. Some of the globe's most prominent… More
Soren Stockman Reads Three Poems
Soren Stockman reads three poems, "Lustral," "Afternoon in Wyoming," and "Doctor," which appeared in the PEN Poetry Series in March 2014. More
Live Debate: The Fate of Edward Snowden
Leading writers, Amy Davidson and Jonathan Capehar, debate the prospect of clemency for NSA leaker, Edward Snowden. Co-hosted by PEN American Center and the Center on National Security at… More
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