At the PEN World Voices Festival session “Towards a Trans Aesthetic,” 5 acclaimed authors discussed their experiences reading and writing trans narratives. The session featured a great deal of “trans fabulousness packed in a small space” said Jennifer Finney Boylan. pen.org/2025-pen-world…

At #PENWorldVoices 2025, author Jodi Picoult joined Fiona Davis for a panel moderated by Adriana Trigiani about “women’s fiction,” a nonexistent genre women writers are often pigeonholed into and dismissed. Read the full rundown here: pen.org/for-women-writ…

“When I think about where we are now, the first image that comes to mind is of Kristi Noem standing in front of those cages in El Salvador… The worst images of history have come back, and this time we’re doing it.” Francine Prose at PEN World Voices Festival pen.org/world-voices-f…