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Recent Oprah Book Club pick Uwem Akpan (Say Youre One of Them), Juan Felipe Herrera (Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems), and Lily Hoang (Changing)… More

Amrit Singh and Mathew Alexander read excerpts from a transcript of former CIA Director George Tenet's April 2007 appearance on CBS 60 Minutes, as part of the 2009 PEN… More

A.M. Homes, Vice Present of PEN American Center, and Jack Rice, former CIA special agent, read excerpts from a log detailing the seven-week interrogation of Mohammed al Qahtani at… More

Jonathan Ames, author and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, reads from a selection of e-mails written by FBI personnel describing life at Guantánamo Bay, as part of the 2009… More

With Kate Beaton, Nick Bertozzi, Kevin Colden, Mike Dawson, Ludovic Debeurme, Dean Haspiel, Michael Kupperman, Benjamin Marra, R. Sikoryak, Jeff Newelt, and Harvey Pekar (RIP)Critics like to point out… More

With Leila Aboulela, Nathacha Appanah, and Rahul BhattacharyaImagine you are invited to a great global book swap and have to bring just one beloved book originally written in a… More

With Amélie Nothomb and Buket Uzuner; moderated by Kira Brunner Don.Since her debut on the French literary scene more than a decade ago, Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb has published… More

Jameel Jaffer, Director of ACLU's National Security Project, offers opening remarks to the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror". More

With Aleksandar Hemon, Colum McCann, Iulian Ciocan, Frode Grytten, and Andrej Blatnik.Revel in the spectacular story-telling of the celebrated anthology Best European Fiction. For 2011, editor Aleksandar Hemon and… More