If a picture is worth a thousand words, what can we deduce from a photograph of a basement filled with inflatable dolls, a notebook of dense notes, or a portrait of a young boy? We asked PEN Members to send us photos of their private lives so you could have a look. Join us in a mixed-media experiment to explore the intersection of the public and private, the visual and written.

Here's how it works:

Contributors: Kurt Andersen, Grace Cavalieri, T Cooper, Joshua Furst, Shelley Jackson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Janna Levin, Chuck Palahniuk, Gregory Pardlo, Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti, Boria Sax, Susan Shapiro, Lorin Stein, Anthony Valerio

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