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The PEN Ten Interview Series
The PEN Ten is on the pulse of literary culture to help you discover your next great read. In this interview series, we ask authors 10 questions about their latest work and art.
Dalal Mawad | The PEN Ten Interview
For Pilar, her anxieties and insecurities solidify into this belief that she has been cursed. She accepts it as true, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. More
Marcela Fuentes | The PEN Ten Interview
For Pilar, her anxieties and insecurities solidify into this belief that she has been cursed. She accepts it as true, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. More
Matthew Mendoza | The PEN Ten Interview
Place and story are important to me. The best work exists where the amazing and magical meet the sinister. More
Parul Kapur | The PEN Ten Interview
There is always a cost to defiance. The question is whether you can bear it or how you can transcend it. More
‘The Tale of a Wall’ by Nasser Abu Srour | The PEN Ten Interview
In this PEN Ten interview, we talk with the publisher and translator of 'The Tale of a Wall' by Nasser Abu Srour. More
Lisa Grunwald | The PEN Ten Interview
I was looking for a time in American life when things seemed as passionately divided as they do now. More
Yaël Eisenstat | An Interview on Disinformation, Friction, and Election Integrity
"One of my concerns is how journalists can continue to do this work without inadvertently casting even more doubt on the information landscape." More
Michael Arceneaux | The PEN Ten Interview
I’m very clear about what I want to say and how I want to say it when I try to sell a book. You either believe in it or… More
Deborah Jackson Taffa | The PEN Ten Interview
I could only share my family’s trauma if I told it in context, reminding readers that my elders struggled, not because of a moral failure on their part, but… More
Kevin Huizenga | The PEN Ten Interview
I like to be productive, and sometimes being productive means taking an idea you thought up in a previous story, and expanding on it, or turning it around to… More