Pedro Rosa Mendes reads from The Bay of Tigers at the PEN event Africa and the World: The Writer's Role, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Elena Poniatowska reads a boy's account of a 1985 earthquake in Mexico at Confronting the Worst: Writing & Catastrophe, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Achmat Dangor reads from his novel Bitter Fruit at the PEN event Africa and the World: The Writer's Role, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More

Nuruddin Farah reads from his novels Maps and Links at the PEN event Africa and the World: The Writer's Role, part of the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival. More

With Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Martín Espada, Philip Gourevitch, Jessica Hagedorn, Heidi Julavits, Nicole Krauss, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Grace Paley, Emma Reverter,… More