Interviews & Features
PEN America produces a breadth of interviews and features throughout the year.
The PEN Ten with Eric Bogosian
"We are no longer living in an era of the printed word radiating outward from author toward readers. Words come in short bursts, ideas ping-pong, thinking itself has become… More
Q&A with Tolu Ogunlesi
Lagos is not a place where people come on holiday. I would love to have people come and see it for themselves after reading my pieces. More
The PEN Ten with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
"Are they influences? My obsessions are numerous and varied and therefore lead me to my greatest obsession: to be still, to know silence within, to be so still that… More
The PEN Ten with Dorothy Tse
"Every word becomes dangerous when words fall into a wave of social movements." More
The PEN Ten with Megan Abbott
"The big issues of life are explored in crime fiction because so much is laid bare there. They are about loss, guilt, survival—everything that matters." More
The PEN Ten with Mat Johnson
"The attempt to destroy ideas is almost always futile, so censorship ultimately becomes less about controlling the ideas of the text, and more about performing a public act of… More
The PEN Ten with Dante Micheaux
"I do not think of myself as a writer, though I do write and often use the label for convenience: being a writer is much easier to explain than… More
The PEN Ten with Laura Lippman
"I am very conscious that the crime novel has taken on a lot of the trappings of the social novel. But it most interests me for its ability to… More
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The PEN Ten with Mohsin Hamid
"There is no responsibility of the writer that is different from the responsibility of the human being." More
The PEN Ten with Jynne Martin
"I live in a time and place where poetry is rarely read, much less taken as a provocation. I will reserve the term "daring" for writers in other parts… More
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