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.
Safiya Sinclair | The PEN Ten Interview
For me, and for the women in my family, our stories are the way we preserve our history, our culture, and the vital parts of ourselves that our ancestors… More
Paul Yoon | The PEN Ten Interview
My hope is that each story communicates with the one beside it, in setting, in movement, in what it focuses on. More
Mona Awad | The PEN Ten Interview
Really the novel explores how we often focus on the surface in order to avoid pain, or any kind of difficult, deep internal work. More
Thrity Umrigar | The PEN Ten Interview
Because what I’m most interested in is examining the systems and forces that create divides between people, those power dynamics that separate us. More
C Pam Zhang | The PEN Ten Interview
Like language, food is essential and theoretically accessible to almost anyone. The real question is which culinary voices are permitted, celebrated, amplified, valued. More
Isle McElroy | The PEN Ten Interview
It can feel amazing to be taken care of, to be known, but it can also feel limiting if one is shown things about oneself that are difficult to… More
Sam Sax | The PEN Ten Interview
I think in that same way that every poem teaches you how to read it, every poem you make teaches you how to make it as you’re writing. More
2023 Emerging Voices Fellows | The PEN Ten Interview
The 2023 Emerging Voices Fellows provide insight into their creative processes, how they’ve developed as writers, and what inspires their literary practice. More
Sola Mahfouz & Malaina Kapoor | The PEN Ten Interview
In Afghanistan, laughter is as much a part of life as sorrow and pain. People crack jokes while hiding from bombs in basements, finding humor in their grim reality. More
Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki | The PEN Ten Interview
Your first big break up, the first loves of your life, are your friends. Those stories are really interesting, meaty stories. More
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