Audio + Video
Crossing Over: The 2009 Beyond Margins Celebration
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
Reckoning with Torture: Amrit Singh & Matthew Alexander
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
Reckoning with Torture: A.M. Holmes & Jack Rice Read from an Interrogation Log
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
Reckoning with Torture: Jonathan Ames Reads from FBI E-mails, Guantánamo Bay
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
Get Super Lit: Comic Books Come Alive on Stage
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
The Great Global Book Swap
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
Lunchtime Literary Conversations: Amélie Northomb and Buket Uzuner
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
In Conversation: Abdellah Taïa and Dale Peck
Dale Peck, the controversial critic and daring author of queer novels such as Martin and John, interviews one of Morocco's youngest and most talented novelists Abdellah Taїa (Le jour… More
Reckoning with Torture: Jonathan Ames Reads from FBI E-mails, Guantánamo Bay
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
Best European Fiction
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