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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
Chinua Achebe: A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe discusses writing "under the spell" of Things Fall Apart, the rashness of sending his only manuscript to England fifty years ago, and the excitement of creating a… More
Cynthia Ozick: Writers, Visible and Invisible
Cynthia Ozick delivered the following speech as part of the 2008 Literary Awards Ceremony. Ozick is the winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Award, which honors a living author for… More
Anthony Romero Introduces Something to Hide
Anthony Romero, Excecutive Director of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), introduces Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Survellance State, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices… 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
Wallace Shawn Reads from James Comey’s Testimony Before Senate Judiciary Committee
Wallace Shawn reads excerpts from James Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the NSA's wiretapping program. This reading took place at Something to Hide: Writers and Artists… 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
György Dragomán Reads from “The Wolf” by Adam Broder
György Dragomán reads from "The Wolf" by Adam Broder at Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. 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
Chenjerai Hove Reads from Skipping Without Ropes by Jack Mapanje
Chenjerai Hove reads from Skipping Without Ropes by Jack Mapanje at Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival. More
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