National Book Award finalist Robert Jones Jr. joins PEN Out Loud to celebrate the paperback release of his New York Times-bestselling novel, The Prophets. A stirring and lyrical debut, it tells the love story between two enslaved men, and the endurance of their relationship amid increasing tensions and violence on the plantation where they live. Jones Jr. will be...
Ring in the new year among fellow PEN America Members and supporters at our annual New Year New Books Party in New York City! As we welcome 2023, let us also gather in celebration and defense of the written word. The past year has seen alarming drives in legislatures, school districts, and communities nationwide to ban books...
The Center for Fiction welcomes Jamila Minnicks for a rich conversation on her acclaimed debut novel, Moonrise Over New Jessup, winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. In this enchanting novel, Alice arrives in New Jessup, a thriving, self-sufficient Black community where people are skeptical of those lobbying for integration. There, she falls in...
