(Among the participants: NYC short story queen Deborah Eisenberg, Guatemalan novelist Francisco Goldman, Sri Lankan-Cannuck novelist and Brick editor Michale Ondaatje, and New York Times’ Week in Review and Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus.)
New York’s most comprehensive literary festival, PEN World Voices, has announced it’s 2008 program. Many of the over 150 events are free, and nearly all are interesting.
Hot dog!
The Public and Private Lives of Writers
When: Wednesday, April 30
Where: The Town Hall:
123 West 43rd St.What time: 8–9:30 p.m.
With Coral Bracho, Peter Esterhazy, Rian Malan, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Francine Prose, Annie Proulx, Evelyn Schlag, A.B. Yehoshua; introduced by Salman RushdieTickets: $12/$8 PEN and FIAF members and students
Ondaatje and McEwan together…with Padma’s ex!
One to avoid would be Mia Farrow discussing Darfur with sexxxymann philosopher and Pakistan-hater Bernard Henri Levy. I mean, Mia’s cool and she fucked Philip Roth, but who wants to hear an actress discuss genocide with an overrated “public intelectual.”
Free, Burma:
May 1 | Burma: A Land at a Crossroads
When: Thursday, May 1
Where:Instituto Cervantes New York: 211–215 East 49th St.
What time:1–2:30 p.m.
With Ian Buruma and Thant Myint-U; moderated by Dedi Felman
And many more…
Free and open to the public. No reservations.
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