PEN America

Mar 2020

The PEN Pod: Mental Health & the Outbreak

Appeared in: PEN America

Andrew Solomon and Stephen Fee discuss the national debate over the risks of social isolation and its consequences for mental health.

Jul 2018

Video: Writers Read from “Testament” by Oleg Sentsov

Appeared in: PEN America

On the occasion of his 42nd birthday, and to mark his continued incarceration and ongoing hunger strike, writers from around the world read excerpts from Oleg Sentsov’s “Testament.”

Oct 2017

Video: Art as Activism: An Evening with Ai Weiwei

Appeared in: PEN America

Literature is a place where we can construct new realities together, but unless the literature available to us is representative, those new realities threaten to reconstruct the prejudice and discrimination of the world we live in. — Ai Weiwei

May 2017

Video: Portraying Gay Male Life Today

Appeared in: PEN America, WNYC

How are today’s realities and paradoxes shifting what gay writers and activists take on? Writers and artists Ali Asgar,Édouard Louis, Garth Greenwell and Andrew Solomon explore how gay life, gay men and gay culture are changing and how artists are responding in their work.

Apr 2017

Video: 2017 PEN America Literary Gala

Appeared in: PEN America

Andrew Solomon’s remarks at the 2017 PEN America Literary Gala.

Jan 2017

Video: PEN America WRITERS RESIST Protest to Defend Free Expression

Appeared in: PEN America

Writers and artists have taken a collective stand to defend free expression, reject hatred, and uphold the truth.

May 2016

Video: 2016 PEN America Literary Gala

Appeared in: PEN America

Andrew Solomon’s opening remarks at the 2016 PEN America Literary Gala, held on May 16, 2016, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Apr 2016