PEN World Voices in Rochester [Events!]
In case we haven’t mentioned this before, tonight we’re co-hosting a special event with Writers & Books and PEN World Voices featuring three international authors: Najat El Hachmi, Marcelo Figueras, and Carsten Jensen. All the info can be found here, but in short, this event starts at 7pm at Writers & ...
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Eating Enough to Keep Drinking [PEN Receptions]
Totally stealing this title from Geoff Dyer via Joshua Furst, so thanks to both of you . . . But it really is the perfect description for what the first couple days of the PEN World Voices Festival was for me. My PEN experience started at 5:30am, when I picked up Thomas Pletzinger and Ross Benjamin from their hotel in ...
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Monkey Business
Where: BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY Come help us launch the first annual English language edition of Monkey Business, New Writing From Japan. The launch party will be an evening of readings and celebrations with Monkey Business editors and contributors, including Motoyuki Shibata, Hiromi Kawakami, Hideo ...
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PEN: The Sixth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Wole Soyinka
Where: New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, 5th Ave. at 42nd St., New York City Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nigerian poet-dramatist, Wole Soyinka, writes: “Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.” Join him for a thoughtful examination of censorship—and ...
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PEN: In Conversation: Mahi Binebine and Anderson Tepper
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City Listen in on a conversation with a titan of Moroccan letters. In an intimate dialogue, Binebine, the author of six novels, will talk about the value of Moroccan cultural heritage, identity, empowerment, and women. Under the High Patronage ...
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PEN: New Orleans
Where: The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St., New York City More than five years after Katrina, one of the greatest man-made disasters in America’s history, the country has moved on. New Orleans has not. While the city has fought with great passion and courage to recover, disturbing problems remain. How has New Orleans, a world ...
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PEN: Translator Rights and Translator Wrongs
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City PEN Translation Committee Chair Susan Bernofsky teams up with intellectual property attorney Erach Screwvala to discuss intellectual property issues in literary translations and their implications for both the business and the artistic sides ...
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