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WORLD VOICES BLOGS

Tayari Jones Tayari Jones
PEN Cabaret

By the time I made it to the PEN Cabaret, I was beat-down tired. It was cold and raining and I was sort of hungry. But being a good little PEN Soldier, I scrambled over the Webster Hall. . .[More]

Claudio Ivan Remeseira Claudio Ivan Remeseira
Umberto Eco at Cooper Union

Listening to Umberto Eco give his Arthur Miller Lecture in front of a packed and fascinated auditorium at Cooper Union last Sunday night, one can easily understand the reason of his world-wide appeal. . .[More]

Anne Landsman Anne Landsman
Everything's on the Table

There was nothing neutral about watching fellow white southern Africans—one who lives in the U.S. and one who lives in South Africa—talk about their powerful, groundbreaking memoirs . . . [More]

Michael Kruger
by Molly McQuade

Vladmaster Vladimir's Viewmasters
Jane Ciabattari

In Short, Keep it Short
Aaron Hamburger

A Conversation with A.B. Yeshoshua
Leora Skolkin-Smith

Bad Boys, Bad Boys
Marlon James

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PHOTO VOYEURISM

 
Ever wonder what was in Chuck Palahniuk's basement? We asked PEN Members to send us photos of their private lives so you could have a look. Join us in a mixed-media experiment to explore the intersection of the public and private, the visual and written.

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guo   Olympic Voices: A Celebration of New Literature from China

With Flora Drew, Xiaolu Guo. and Ma Jian; moderated by Dedi Felman

saviano Gamorrah: Infiltrating the Mafia

With Roberto Saviano and Antonio Monda

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast  Conversation: Jeffrey Eugenides & Daniel Kehlmann


The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast  The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with Umberto Eco

Featuring a conversation with Adam Gopnik

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast In Treatment: A Literary Conversation

With Yael Hedaya & Arnon Grunberg

vargas llosa The Three Musketeers Reunited

With Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa; in conversation with Leonard Lopate

Inside Out: The Public and Private Lives of Children Inside Out: The Public and Private Lives of Children

With Sharon G. Flake, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Jutta Richter, and Peter Sis; moderated by Elizabeth Levy

The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
Town Hall Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives  

With Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Annie Proulx, A.B. Yehoshua, and more

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