A.M. Homes Reads from “The Many Aspects of CPC Dictatorship” and from the Verdict against Liu Xiaobo
A.M. Homes reads from "The Many Aspects of CPC Dictatorship" and from the Beijing Municipality First Intermediate Peoples Court verdict against Liu Xiaobo, as part of the 2009 event… More
Don DeLillo Reads from an Article and a Poem by Liu Xiaobo
Don DeLillo reads from the 2006 article "Can it be that the Chinese People Deserve Only 'Party-Led Democracy'" and a poem by Liu Xiaobo, as part of the 2009… More
Irakli Kakabadze Performs a Polyphonic Discourse
Irakli Kakabadze performs a polyphonic discourse at the Fourth Annual PEN Cabaret, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Hwang Sok-Yong Reads from The Old Garden
Hwang Sok-Yong reads from his novel The Old Garden at DEFIANCE: The Spirit of ?89, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Translation Slam
Internationally renowned translators test their linguistic mettle against each other in a duel to the translation death at the Translation Slam, part of the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Green Thoughts: Entire event
Billy Collins, Jonathan Franzen, Moses Isegawa, Pico Iyer, Geert Mak, Marilynne Robinson, Roxana Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Gary Shteyngart, Janne Teller, and Colson Whitehead read from relevant works of fiction… More
Town Hall Readings: Writing Home
Writers read pieces around the theme of home at Town Hall Readings: Writing Home, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Eric Bogosian Reads a Third Excerpt from “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner
Eric Bogosian reads a third excerpt from ?A Journal of a Prisoner? by David Lightner at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More
Mary Gaitskill Reads “Kitchen Workers” by Gail Leonard
Mary Gaitskill reads Gail Leonard's "Kitchen Workers," second place winner for fiction in PEN's 2007 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. More
Sean Wilsey Reads an Excerpt from “LIVE! From Texas Death Row!” by Christopher Best
Sean Wilsey reads an excerpt from Christopher Best's "LIVE! From Texas Death Row!", first-place winner for essay writing in PEN's 2005 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout:… More
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