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Opening Night Reading: Bravery
The 2013 PEN World Voices Festival kicks off with a stellar line-up of authors, including Najwan Darwish, Joy Harjo, Mikhail Shishkin, Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Ursula Krechel, David Fraktk,… More
An Evening with Cabinet: In Defense of Forgetting
On Friday evening of the Festival, Cabinet Editor Sina Najafi introduced speakers Simon Critchley, Barbara Frischmuth, and George Prochnik in the candlelit space of Joe’s Pub. Each writer presented anecdotes that… More
Master/Class: Eduardo Galeano with Jessica Hagedorn
Celebrated Uruguayan storyteller and chronicler of history’s forgotten, Eduardo Galeano, talks about the intersection of literature and politics. This session will explore the place where the political can become… More
The Testament of Mary: A Discussion on the Broadway Show
Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw, writer Colm Tóibín, and director Deborah Warner discuss the process of bringing The Testament of Mary, Tóibín’s adaptation of his 2012 novella, to the Broadway… More
An Evening with Guernica: Bravery and Gender in “Confessional Writing”
Why are confessional narratives penned by female writers so often deemed “brave,” “sticky,” or “opportunistic,” when the same material addressed by male writers is called by its name: art?… More
An Evening with McSweeney’s
McSweeney’s contributors read excerpts from their translations in McSweeney’s Issue 42—an ambitious experiment that took twelve stories through six phases of translation in a variety of languages, granting each… More
Watching the Meter: Poetry from the Taxi Drivers Workshop
PEN World Voices Festival invites you into the world of the New York City cabbie: a fractured place where isolation meets socialization and entrepreneurial impulses can be at odds… More
Burma: Bones Will Crow
Two of the Burma’s most esteemed poets, Zeyar Lynn and Khin Aung Aye, read from their work and discuss the country’s budding literary scene with the editor of Bones… More
Flexibility in Advertising: A Conversation with Manhattan Mini Storage
Inspired by the sort of originality exemplified by Manhattan Mini Storage, this conversation features cultural strategist and deputy director of the New Museum Karen Wong, a novelist and former advertising industry… More
Sonia Sotomayor: The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture
In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court; she assumed her role as Associate Justice on August 8, 2009. Her memoir, My Beloved… More
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