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Green Thoughts: Writers on the Environment
 With readings by Billy Collins, Jonathan Franzen, Moses Isegawa, Pico Iyer, Geert Mak, Marilynne Robinson, Roxana Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Gary Shteyngart, Janne Teller, Colson Whitehead >> Listen
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History and the Truth of Fiction
 With Arthur Japin, Laila Lalami, Imma Monsó, Michael Wallner; moderated by Colum McCann
Discussed: falling in and out of love with your characters; the invention of truth; the differences between fact and truth; and fiction writers as the unacknowledged historians of the future. >> Listen
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Postcolonial Writing in a Globalized World
 With Ilija Trojanov and Amitava Kumar
Discussed: A Kenyan-born Bulgarian as a Nazi Ambassador in Bollywood; traveling on foot; mobility and identity; “the good other"; the invention of a German pidgin; the Huns vs. Wal-Mart; drawing lines to ignite public fear; writing as negotiation of open space. >> Listen
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Youth on the Frontlines: A Program for High School Students
 With Ishmael Beah, Uzodinma Iweala, Linda Sue Park; moderated by Donna Barkman
Discussed: writing what you know; remembering the lives of others; hip-hop; and readings from Linda Sue Park's When My Name Was Keoko and Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. >>Listen
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Words Under Confinement: Prison Writing as Political Act
 With Breyten Breytenbach, Massimo Carlotto, Kathleen Cleaver, Susan Rosenberg; moderated by Drake Stutesman
Discussed: the entwining nature of activism and writing; prison as the untranslatable experience; writing in full view of one’s enemies; reaching out by writing letters. >> Listen
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An Evening with The Moth
 The Moth features simple, old-fashioned storytelling on thoroughly modern themes by wildly divergent raconteurs, tonight shines a spotlight on special Festival guests Neil Gaiman, Pico Iyer, Laila Lalami, and Jonathan Ames >> Listen
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Gritty Realism
 With Daniel Alarcón, Guillermo Arriaga, Jorge Franco, Patrícia Melo; moderated by Margo Jefferson
Discussed: violence in the urban environment; making creative work where there is none; political correctness as violence; magical vs. gritty; politics or the lack thereof in Latin American writing; plus readings from all the panelists. >> Listen
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Conversation: Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng
 Discussed: how to become a U.S. citizen; the American short attention span; leaving home and returning on a cargo plane; and a reading from What Is the What >> Listen
Conversation: Kiran Desai & Vikram Chandra, with Rachel Donadio
 With Rachel Donadio
Discussed: holding onto humanity across social class; computer programs and the craft of writing; organized crime and politics; monsters and ordinary people; and "selling your country." >> Listen
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A Believer Nighttime Event 2007
 Featuring a reading from Eric Bogosian's new novel, an auction with Miranda July, and a Writer Speed Date Session hosted by John Hodgman; with Isabel Hoving, Niccolò Ammaniti, Uzodinma Iweala, and Yasmina Khadra >> Listen
Voyage and Voyeur: Travel and Travel Writing
 With Alain de Botton, Ma Jian, and Ilija Trojanow; moderated by Paul Holdengräber >> Listen
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Mixing Art and Politics
 With Dorothea Dieckmann, Almudena Grandes, Janne Teller, Saul Williams; moderated by Sam Tanenhaus
Discussed: the privilege of having no personal politics; how to articulate your world-view while maintaining your culture; resisting the mainstream; writing as a social being; Miles Davis; great writers with abhorrent politics; and America invading everything >> Listen
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A Tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski
 With Breyten Breytenbach, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Carolin Emcke, Philip Gourevitch, Adam Michnik, Salman Rushdie, Lawrence Weschler >> Listen
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The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with David Grossman
 Including an introduction by PEN President Francine Prose, a conversation with Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer, and a concluding statement by Salman Rushdie
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Conversation: Alain Mabanckou & Dany Laferrière, with Anderson Tepper
 A talk about subverting stereotypes, playing with language, and provoking controversy. >> Listen
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Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage
 With Neil Gaiman, Isabel Hoving, Janne Teller, Markus Zusak; moderated by Robert Lipsyte
Discussed: the ideologylessness of children; refusing to be at home; leaving the home and leaving the graveyard; grown-ups who are afraid of children's literature; the safety in stories. >> Listen
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Town Hall Readings: Writing Home
 With readings by Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef >> Listen
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Multiple Passports: Writers on Homeland and Identity
 With Alain Mabanckou, Pia Tafdrup, Adriaan van Dis; and Ian Buruma
Discussed: The disappearance of small languages; learning a language to pick up girls; how to see your country through the eyes of other countries; being suspicious of identity politics; believing in bastards; and how to fight for your culture. >> Listen
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Pico Iyer in Conversation with Hal Wake
 Discussed: travel as a conversation with a new friend; travel in "enemy" country; the invisible and portable home; gated communities and the global soul >> Listen
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Conversation: Neil Gaiman & Marguerite Abouet, with Sean Wilsey
 Discussed: collaborations in a solitary profession; literary ex-pats; writing as directing; the oral tradition vs. urban myths; freezing in Ohio, getting fired in Paris; humbling experiences; the most dangerous streets in London. >> Listen
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Dirty Wars: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention, Kidnapping, and Rendition
 April 26, 2007 | Joe's Pub | NYC
With readings by Lisa Appignanesi, Antoine Audouard, Breyten Breytenbach, Mark Danner, Dorothea Dieckmann, Alex Gibney, Nadine Gordimer, Arnon Grunberg, Francine Prose, Gloria Reuben, Rose Styron, and others
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A Tribute to César Vallejo
 With Jayne Cortez, Mariela Dreyfus, Clayton Eshleman, Forrest Gander,
Edward Hirsch, Sam Shepard, Mónica de la Torre, Cecilia Vicuña &
Anne Waldman
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Conversation: Per Petterson & Marilynne Robinson, with Radhika Jones
 Discussed: how to write without sounding like oneself; the unknown self revealed through strangers; the imagined reader; passion and amnesia; family as a human phenomeon; and readings from Out Stealing Horses and Gilead. >> Listen
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Words Without Borders: Every Day in Africa
 With Marguerite Abouet, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yasmina Khadra, Uzodinma Iweala; moderated by Dedi Felman
Discussed: experiencing the moment of leaving home; which language would you marry if you could; engaging the experience of displacement; and the emotional locations of language. >> Listen
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Conversation: Guillermo Arriaga & Paul Auster
 Discussed: accidental directorhood; filmmaking 101; relating to a literary tradition; the moment when you have nothing left to say; the heavy soul vs. the light soul; "the worst thing you can do with pain is to not use it"; inevitable endings; and cheating death. >> Listen
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Conversation: Caryl Phillips & Abdulrazak Gurnah, with Radhika Jones
 Discussed: writing as a first- or second-generation immigrant; having to account for oneself; split narratives and shifting perspectives; writing in secret; exhuming forgotten stories; and the usefulness of the “postcolonial” label. >> Listen
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Voices From Today’s Iran
Panel Discussion: Voices from Today's Iran
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Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror: Carolin Emcke & Mark Danner
 Award-winning journalists discuss the violent world we live in and the dangers one faces in reporting on it. >> Listen
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The PEN Cabaret
 With performances by Guillermo Arriaga, Oliver Lake, Victoria Roberts, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Saul Williams, and Huang Xiang >> Listen
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Sex and Danger
 With Tinling Choong, Camelia Entekhabifard, Dany Laferrière, Edmund White; moderated by Wayne Koestenbaum >> Listen
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