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April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityAgi Mishol reads two poems, in Hebrew, at Opening Night: Written on Water, part of the 2011… More

April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityAmelie Nothomb reads, in French, from "Loving Sabotage" at Opening Night: Written on Water, part of the… More

April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityAndrea Levy reads from her novel "The Long Song" at the Seventh Annual PEN World Voices Festival. More

Nell Freudenberger, author of Lucky Girls and recipient of the PEN/Malaud Award for short fiction, reads from the sworn statement of an interpreter at the Kandahar Detention Facility in… More

Barbara Goldsmith presents the 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award to Nasrin Sotoudeh at the PEN Literary Gala, part of the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival. Shirin Ebadi,… More

Michael Ondaatje accepts the 2011 PEN Literary Service Award at PEN's Literary Gala, which took place at the Seventh Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. More

With Ludovic Debeurme and Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold; moderated by Kira Brunner DonIn a not-so distant past, the lunchtime hour was a sacred time for editor and writer alike to… More

April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityEvan Fallenberg reads two short sections from his novel When We Danced on Water at the Seventh… More

April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityWallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg perform an excerpt from Shawn's play The Designated Mourner. The performance took… More

April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityGioconda Belli reads Gioconda Belli reads in Spanish from "Words Come In Waves", a series of poems… More