Audio + Video

Martha Southgate reads from The Fear in Lhasa, as Felt in Beijing by Tsering Woeser as part of PEN American Center's Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China event.On… More

In Doug Liman's film Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror," ordinary Americans stand side-by-side with actors, writers, and former military interrogators and intelligence officers… More

Jack Rice discusses the difficulty he feels reading at the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror". More

Jacqueline Jones LaMon reads "And what would you say if you could" by a Readers & Writers student, and "Mrs. Minor GIves Directions to Strangers" from The Elsewhere Chronicles… More

Sebasitan Junger tells a drinking story at the 2009 PEN Edmont Holiday Benefit More

Sophie Auster and Barry Reynolds perform "My Little Bird", "Away", "A Dream About Jack" and more at the 2009 PEN Edmont Holiday Benefit More

November 9, 2011 | The National Arts Club | New York CityThe 2011 PEN Prison Writing Program Fundraiser.PEN Members and special guests gather for a reading of award-winning prose… More

Lemon Anderson reads a diary entry by Gary Salinas, a prisoner in the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, Texas, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More

Jonathan Todres discusses the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and why the United States opposes the treaty at the 2009 PEN event Who Will Speak for… More