Four questions for new PEN president Andrew Solomon

March 11, 2015

 

Andrew Solomon, an LGBTQ activist and Columbia University professor—who also happens to have written a few books, including 2012's Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity—is now the new president of PEN American Center. A week after being named to the post, we talked to Solomon about free expression, hate speech, and his next book.