Episode 24 of the podcast features the 2013 PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony and Memorial Reading featuring the 2013 recipient of the award, author George Saunders. Continue reading →

Episode 23 features a reading we called “Blood Lines: The Literature of War,” a reading by Philip Caputo & Kevin Powers in conversation with Elliot Ackerman. Philip Caputo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of many works of fiction … Continue reading →

Episode 22 features a reading we called “The Human Comedy: Serious Humor in the American Novel,” which features a reading and conversation with authors Tom Perrotta and Maria Semple, moderated by Linda Holmes. The event took place on October 22, … Continue reading →

Episode 21 brings you the 25th anniversary of the PEN/Faulkner Gala, which was held on Monday, October 7th at 6:30 p.m. The Gala celebrates and supports the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools program. Twelve authors … Continue reading →

Episode 20 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast features a Hill Center/ PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series event held on Sept. 17, 2013 with author MK Asante who read from and discuss his new book, BUCK: A Memoir. Asante was joined in conversation by writer Lisa Page, … Continue reading →

This summer, PEN/Faulkner’s Summer Supper & Book Club met weekly for seven weeks at Hill Center where we discussed books by area authors Susan Richards Shreve (Plum and Jaggers), Danielle Evans (Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self), David A. Taylor (Soul of a People: … Continue reading →

Andre Dubus III & Edith Pearlman: A Reading & Conversation Moderated by Mary Kay Zuravleff On Saturday, March 9, 2013 during the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Boston, PEN/Faulkner had the honor of sponsoring a reading featuring … Continue reading →

Episode 17 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast features a reading we called Learning to Breathe: An Evening with Terry McMillan, which was held on April 20, 2013 at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC. The evening was moderated by … Continue reading →

Episode 16 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast presents the the 33rd Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony, which was held on May 4th at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.  The winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction … Continue reading →

In Episode 15 of the PEN/Faulkner Podcast, we present a reading by Susan Richards Shreve, author and co-chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and emerging writer Nicole Idar, a fiction writer who studied with Shreve during her time as an MFA student at George … Continue reading →