May 2 | FIAF | NYC

With Marlon James, Jan Kjærstad, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and Roxana Robinson; moderated by Noreen Tomassi

This conversation between writers dealing with challenging subject matter explores the human need to tell stories, why fiction seems to be hard-wired into us as a species, and where truth lies in the most compelling stories of our time.

Cosponsored by the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction and FIAF

PHOTO GALLERY
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PEN Blogs

• Masha Hamilton:
Using words to talk about words is trickier than you might think when the topic is writing stirring, meaningful novels. There’s a mystery to the process, which perhaps is as it should be. [More]

• Robert Flynn:
The program was billed as a discussion of where truth lies in fiction but quickly turned into darkness. [More]