PEN American Center

  • Controversial Comics

    Cartoonists tend to stick together because they have to; . . . their work is disproportionately singled out for suppression both abroad and in the U.S., while at the same time often regarded as not “serious” enough to deserve a…

  • Famous Authors: They’re Just Like Us!

    For T Magazine, seven authors reflect on the experience of revisiting and annotating their early works for an upcoming PEN American Center fundraiser. George Saunders thinks his style in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline was “manic and abrupt.” Jennifer Egan still…

  • PEN’s Public Programs

    The PEN American Center has a new season of Public Programs, addressing, according the Huffington Post, questions about the place of literature today, “the responsibility of art-making,” and many others. The line-up is available here. 

  • Notable New York, This Week 11/9 – 11/15

    This week in New York Ben Marcus and Rivka Galchen at Harper’s Magazine’s The Family Table, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk, Mary Gaitskill, John Turturro, and Eric Bogosian at PEN benefit, Frederick Wiseman’s documentary La Danse, Jeff Lewis and…

  • Notable New York, This Week 10/12-10/18

    MONDAY, October 12, 2009 – SUNDAY, October 18, 2009 This week in New York, The New Yorker Festival hits town. And yes, while the “Humor Revue,” “About Towns,” and “Kaffeeklatches” seem to have been sold out before they were on…