PEN: Translating America
Where: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., New York City The quest for authenticity and idiosyncrasy would seem to place American writers beyond translation. Yet their popularity abroad—equaled only by loathing for our foreign policy—has sometimes dwarfed their readership at home and reshaped the global literary landscape. ...
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PEN: Writing Wrongs, Righting Wrongs
Where: High Line near 17th St., 10th Ave. Square, New York City (Rain location: Westbeth Center for the Arts) Two sets of on-stage conversations between authors who integrate key themes of coming-of-age: Missing Persons: Authors consider missing men, women, children, telling stories of individual lives—and of ...
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PEN: WikiLeaks
Where: The Cooper Union, Great Hall, 7 E. 7th St. , New York City All interesting conversation begins after the dinner-hour, and the WikiLeaks roundtable, which starts promptly at 9:15 p.m., is no exception. Spend the best part of the evening at one of the most anticipated (and controversial) events of the Festival with a ...
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PEN: Green Man Flashing + Some Mothers’ Sons
Where: CUNY Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theater, 365 Fifth Ave., New York City The Segal Center welcomes South African playwright and cultural leader Mike van Graan for an evening of theatre and discussion, including excerpted readings from his prescient political thriller, Green Man Flashing (2004) and his drama about ...
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PEN: Who Tells the Story? Children’s Book Writers Talk About Voice
Where: Greenwich House Music School, Renee Weiler Concert Hall, 46 Barrow St., New York City Must the writer get inside the head of the child in order to find an authentic voice for a young character? Or does the authentic voice come from someplace else? Three distinguished writers share ideas about how their lives shape ...
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PEN: The Absent Sea by Carlos Franz
Where: The Americas Society, 680 Park Ave., New York City Chilean author Franz and his translator, Leland H. Chambers, will read bilingually from the author’s latest award-winning novel. The Absent Sea explores the subject of the disappeared and, particularly, complicity during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–90). Franz ...
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PEN: In Conversation: Pierre Guyotat and Edmund White
Where: La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews, New York City Edmund White describes Pierre Guyotat’s novel, Eden Eden Eden, as “violent, transgressive and inspired—the last great avant-garde visionary of the 20th Century.” Princeton’s eminent professor of creative writing and author of Rimbaud: The Double Life ...
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