April 27, 2007 | The Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center | NYC

Co-sponsored by The Paris Review

Discussed: how to write without sounding like oneself; the unknown self revealed through strangers; the imagined reader; passion and amnesia; family as a human phenomeon; and readings from Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses and Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Moderated by Radhika Jones and introduced by Philip Gourevitch.

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• Entire conversation (49:29)

From the PEN Blogs

• Mindy Aloff:
Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) must be on everyone’s top 10 list of living American novelists, as well as on a top...[More]

• Victoria Redel:
I went off to this conversation as an eager fan. I've read and reread and taught Robinson's Housekeeping umpteen times. I adore it and also adore-- for...[More]