Talk to Me: New York Stories at the PEN Festival

The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature brought writers from all over the world to New York City this week. In a fitting move, the annual event included New York Stories, a panel on how the Big Apple inspires the written word. On Thursday night, authors, urbanites and intellectuals crowded into the auditorium at the Morgan Museum to hear how New York City shaped the work of Henry James, Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Hardwick.