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PEN Out Loud: Reclaiming Our Time

This December, join PEN America in partnership with the Strand Book Store as we present a feminist retrospective of the year.

This event will feature Carmen Maria Machado, whose debut short story collection Her Body and Other Parties is a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and Kirkus Prize; Min Jin Lee, whose historical novel Pachinko is also a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award; and Morgan Jerkins, whose highly anticipated essay collection, This Will be My Undoing, is forthcoming in January 2018.

All three authors have unique and powerful perspectives on women’s experiences today. Machado has a distinct way of weaving the strange and otherworldly into fictional landscapes that delve into women’s inner lives; Lee turns the clock back to analyze the effects of social pressures on women in twentieth-century East Asia; and Jerkins is known for her incisively honest essays detailing the black woman’s lived experience in America today.

We will reflect on women’s roles at the forefront of the resistance, looking back at where we’ve been, and discussing the ways we can stand together to face what is to come.











When: Mon., Dec. 11, 2017 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The Strand
828 Broadway
212-473-1452
Price: $10
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This December, join PEN America in partnership with the Strand Book Store as we present a feminist retrospective of the year.

This event will feature Carmen Maria Machado, whose debut short story collection Her Body and Other Parties is a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award and Kirkus Prize; Min Jin Lee, whose historical novel Pachinko is also a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award; and Morgan Jerkins, whose highly anticipated essay collection, This Will be My Undoing, is forthcoming in January 2018.

All three authors have unique and powerful perspectives on women’s experiences today. Machado has a distinct way of weaving the strange and otherworldly into fictional landscapes that delve into women’s inner lives; Lee turns the clock back to analyze the effects of social pressures on women in twentieth-century East Asia; and Jerkins is known for her incisively honest essays detailing the black woman’s lived experience in America today.

We will reflect on women’s roles at the forefront of the resistance, looking back at where we’ve been, and discussing the ways we can stand together to face what is to come.

Buy tickets/get more info now