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Written on Water: Hanif Kureishi
April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityHanif Kureishi reads from his 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia at the Seventh Annual PEN World… More
Written on Water: Iva Bittová
April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityRenowned Czech violinist-vocalist Iva Bittová performs at Written on Water, part of the Seventh Annual PEN World… More
Written on Water: Malcolm Gladwell
April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityIn order to understand the phenomenon of the "graveyard spiral," the cause of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s… More
Written on Water: Mircea Cărtărescu
April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CityMircea Cărtărescu reads his poem "Oh, Natalie" (in Romanian) at the Seventh Annual PEN World Voices Festival. More
Written on Water: Salman Rushdie
April 25, 2011 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers | New York CitySalman Rushdie reads the opening of his novel "The Enchantress of Florence" at the Seventh Annual PEN… More
The Public Intellectual
With Manuel de Lope, Peter Godwin, Pierre Guyotat, Linda Polman, and Hervé Le Tellier; moderated by Jane CiabattariFor Ralph Waldo Emerson the public intellectual was the preserver of the… More
Opening Night: Written on Water
With Gioconda Belli, Iva Bittová, Mircea Cărtărescu, Deborah Eisenberg, Evan Fallenberg, Malcolm Gladwell, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Agi Mishol, Amélie Nothomb, Salman Rushdie, and Wallace Shaw.Taking place in the… More
Revolutionaries in the Arab World
This panel explores the sweeping political changes in the Arab world. Hear from experts and on-the-ground bloggers how social media and citizen journalism galvanize the revolution. In the borderless… More
PEN Working Day: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison delivers a keynote speech at the PEN Member Working Day, part of the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. More
Everything and More: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
With Rick Moody, Sandro Veronesi, Michael Pietsch, and othersIn this magnificent book left unfinished at his death, David Foster Wallace anatomizes contemporary American sadness and boredom by investigating its… More
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