DATE | April 19, 2021
LOCATION | Online Event
Join us for Crisis, featuring three novelists whose work is informed by the possibility of impending crisis, and see where they lead us – from familiar landscapes to dystopian extremes.
T.C. Boyle (World’s End, The Terranauts), Jenny Offill (Weather, Dept. of Speculation), and Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, Lagoon) will be in conversation with moderator Sean Murphy (Founder & Executive Director, 1455).
DATE | March 11, 2021 at 7pm ET
LOCATION | Online Event
Refuge featured authors who have explored topics of immigration, identity, and home in their work, at a time when these issues are especially urgent.
This insightful and challenging discussion of refuge and home featured authors Aleksandar Hemon (Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project), Abdi Nor Iftin (Call Me American), Souvankham Thammavongsa (How to Pronounce Knife), and moderator Matthew Davis (Founding Director, Alan Cheuse International Writers Center).
Catch the recording and transcript of this event now!
DATE | February 9, 2021 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Online Event
Intersections featured authors who have engaged with intersectional identities in their work. We were joined by novelists Tope Folarin, Min Jin Lee, and Douglas Stuart, as well as moderator and book critic Bethanne Patrick, for a complicated and challenging discussion of intersectionality in literature.
NOW AVAILABLE: The event recording and transcript.
DATE | November 23, 2020 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Online Event
Literature provides the perfect opportunity to escape into new worlds in an attempt to cope with and understand all that happens in our own.
This riveting Literary Conversation featured Margaret Atwood, Rion Amilcar Scott, Nisi Shawl, and moderator Morgan Jerkins.
DATE | October 19, 2020 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Online Event
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the way we live our lives. It has also shown us our weak points and failures as a society.
This fascinating and especially relevant conversation featured literary powerhouses Stephen King (The Stand), Lauren Beukes (Afterland), and Emma Donoghue (The Pull of the Stars). They were joined by moderator and author Daniel H. Pink.
DATE | Wed, September 23, 2020, 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Online Event
This third installment of Literature on Screen features Caroline Kepnes, author of the best-selling book turned hit Netflix series, You. Caroline was in conversation with Penn Badgley, actor and star of the TV adaptation, and moderator Chris Klimek (NPR, Washington Post) to discuss the translation of her books to the hit Netflix series, as well as the modernization of stalking in the digital age that takes place in her novels.
DATE | February 27, 2020 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052
According to the NIMH, almost twenty percent of American adults live with a mental illness. From social anxiety and depression to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, mental illness is becoming more prevalent in today’s society and everyday dialogue.
Date | November 21, 2019 at 7:00 PM
Location | True Reformer Building, 1200 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
This event featured authors who write about the effects of this system on the lives of everyday Americans, shedding light on narratives that are often oversimplified or ignored.
DATE | October 9, 2019 at 7:00 PM
Location | Penn Social, 801 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
What happens when the visual arts meet the literary arts?
Join the PEN/Faulkner Foundation for an evening of conversation with some of the biggest names in graphic novels, as they talk about artistic collaborations and the evolution of storytelling in a new era.
DATE | April 30, 2019 at 7:30 PM
LOCATION | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Rd
Silver Spring, MD 20910
We welcomed author Angie Thomas and actor Russell Hornsby to DC where they discussed the translation of the bestselling novel, The Hate U Give, to the critically acclaimed movie adaptation, as well as the very real events that inspired the story.
DATE | March 10, 2019 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave NW
Washington, DC 20005
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the National Museum of Women in the Arts presented “Fantastic Women.”
DATE | February 12, 2019 at 7:30 PM
LOCATION | Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street SE, Washington, DC 20003
Cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” in his essay “Black to the Future,”and its meaning has expanded to encompass alternative visions of the future influenced by astral jazz, African-American sci-fi, psychedelic hip-hop, rock, rhythm and blues, and more.
Author/playwright Tananarive Due, novelist N.K. Jemisin, and poet Airea D. Matthews discussed the origins and extensions of Afrofuturism in a conversation moderated by Sheree Renée Thomas. This event was co-sponsored by the Library of Congress Center for the Book and presented in partnership with Folger Poetry.
Date | January 14, 2019 at 7:00 PM
Location | Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
We heard from award-winning Mexican American writers Jennifer Clement and Luis Alberto Urrea on such relevant issues as immigrant narratives, the epidemic of gun violence, and the xenophobic sentiment facing Mexican immigrants in the United States today. Both authors have a thread of activism woven through their work, Clement through her writing on hidden women and the far-reaching arm of human-trafficking, and Urrea in his stories of the border, a space where narratives have traditionally been overlooked.
This conversation was moderated by award-winning news anchor and reporter Maria Hinojosa.
Date | November 27, 2018 at 7:00 PM
Location | Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052
DATE | October 29, 2018 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Penn Social, 801 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
Dan Chaon, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Brian Evenson joined us for a night filled with horror and incredible literature, reading from their work and engaging in conversation about what horror fiction as a genre says about the very real horrors we face on a daily basis. This evening was moderated by bestselling and award-winning author, Elizabeth Hand.
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