Halfdan Freihow Reads from Dear Gabriel
Halfdan Freihow reads from his novel Dear Gabriel at the event Reading the World, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Janet Malcolm Reads from Two Lives
Janet Malcolm reads from her book Two Lives at the event Reading the World, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Francesc Serés Reads a Story in Catalan and English
Francesc Serés reads a story in Catalan and English at the event Reading the World, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Irakli Kakabadze Reads “Information Highway Song” by Guram Urtkmelidze
Irakli Kakabadze Reads "Information Highway Song" by Guram Urtkmelidze at Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak on the Eve of the Olympics
On August 7, the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, PEN American Center honored the more than 40 writers and journalists currently being held in Chinese prisons for exercising… More
Edwidge Danticat Reads from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Edwidge Danticat reads from the first chapter of Things Fall Apart at the 2008 event A Tribute to Chinua Achebe. More
Chris Abani Speaks at A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
Chris Abani talks about falling in love—first with women, then with writing—as a young boy in Nigeria, as part of PEN's Tribute to Chinua Achebe. More
Colum McCann Reads “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Colum McCann reads "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats and discusses Yeats, Achebe, and interconnectivity at PEN's Tribute to Chinua Achebe. Read the transcript below. More
Suheir Hammad Reads “break (clustered)”
Suheir Hammad reads her poem "break (clustered)" at the 2008 event A Tribute to Chinua Achebe. More