PEN World Voices, The Three Musketeers, again
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Alexander Dumas, J. K. Rowling, Mario Vargas Llosa, PEN World Voices, Salman Rushdie, Three Musketeers, Umberto Eco
Others have posted their reports, so I’m indulging myself with impressions. There was a time when I might have scoffed at the false glamour of going to hear three literary giants read and talk. This year, I jumped at the chance. After all, when Mario…
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1 commentUmberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa at PEN World Voices
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Pen World Voices Festival, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco
“You’ll notice an empty chair has been placed next to the podium on stage. This is too symbolize those writers who could not be here today due to political oppression.” Thus intoned Leonard Lopate at New York City’s uptown 92nd Street Y, introducing a major…
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leave a comment Opening night of the 2008 World Voices Festival
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Annie Proulx, Evelyn Schlag, Michael Ondaatje, Pen World Voices Festival, Rian Malan, Salman Rushdie
Opening night of the 2008 World Voices Festival Salman Rushdie is President of PEN American Center. He opened and closed tonight's event. His closing comments were especially amusing. He said he was the punctuation at the end of the evening - the human embodiement of…
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Salman Rushdie. The Shelter of the World. A review
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Salman Rushdie, Short Story Review
At dawn the haunting sandstone palaces of the new “victory city” of Akbar the Great looked as if they were made of red smoke. Most cities start giving the impression of being eternal almost as soon as they are born, but Sikri would always look…
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PEN World Voices: Wednesday Night At Town Hall
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alain mabanckou, don delillo, kiran desai, nadine gordimer, neil gaiman, salman rushdie, steve martin, tatyana tolstaya
PEN World Voices is a series of more than sixty encounters with writers from around the world, most of them taking place in small rooms before small audiences. But Wednesday night at Town Hall in Manhattan’s theater district is “the big show”, star-studded and sold-out,…
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