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I’ve recently added a search function so that you can limit your Google search to just the blogs that are members of MetaxuCafe. I think that will be a good resource for everyone looking for literary topics online and you’ll find it right on the front page as well as other places on the site. Now if you want to read about, say Orhan Pamuk, but only want to search the litblogs you trust, you can narrow your search right here.
Pen World Voices Photos: Three Musketeers Event
by BudParr | MetaxuCafe on May 04, 2008
MetaxuCafé was shut out by the 92nd St.Y from taking any photos or video from Friday night’s Three Musketeers Event. They wanted us to pay “several hundred dollars” to exercise our right to free speech. Ironic given that we were there to report on a PEN event whose raison d’être is free speech. At any rate, our photographer Mary did get some photos from after the event [see them here]. And all is not lost because the people at PEN did take some photos of the event (and backstage) and have posted them on Flickr. Click on the photo below for more.
Incidentally, the photo here is of Umberto Eco reading from Foucault’s Pendulum in Italian, which for me was the highlight of the night, listening to the rhythm of the original while reading the English behind him.
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I had the distinct pleasure on May 1 of hearing two of the three musketeers (Umberto Eco and Salman Rushdie) reading from their works and conversing with each other with the excellent moderation of Joanna Scott at the University of Rochester as an extended event (350 miles) of the PEN World Voices Festival. We were not favored with Italian but had the pleasure of hearing them interact with each other and stimulate each others’ imaginations. Thanks to both authors for favoring those of us living in the provinces under the aegis of the Holland Land Office.
– Joe Langen (05/05 at 5-May 14:41 -05:00)