A.B. Yehoshua reads the first chapter of A Woman in Jerusalem (in Hebrew) at Town Hall Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Francine Prose reads from Goldengrove at Town Hall Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Nuruddin Farah reads from his novel Maps and delivers a talk at the PEN event The Power of the Pen, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Salman Rushdie reads from his novel The Enchantress of Florence at the event The Three Musketeers Reunited: Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa, part of the 2008… More

Mario Vargas Llosa reads from his novel The Bad Girl (in Spanish) at the event The Three Musketeers Reunited: Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa, part of… More

A conversation between Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Leonard Lopate at the event The Three Musketeers Reunited: Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa, part… More

Coral Bracho, Peter Esterhazy, Rian Malan, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Annie Proulx, Evelyn Schlag, A.B. Yehoshua explore the public and private roles authors play at Town Hall… More

Evelyn Schlag Reads "New York Marathon" and "New York 1999" (in German) at Town Hall Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Annie Proulx reads from Aiden Higgins's Langrishe, Go Down at Town Hall Readings: Public Lives/Private Lives, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More