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| Monday, April 25, 2011 8:56PM | | | | Opening Night: Impressions | Tags: pen world voices, opening night, chelsea, hanif kureishi, Mircea Cartarescu, salman rushdie, giconda belli
| | | The PEN World Voices Festival had already begun, as director Laszlo Jakab Orsos observed, with a lecture on the role of the public intellectual. By the time the opening night started at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, a literary celebration was already well underway.
The re-centering of this year's festival towards the High Line means a lot of hoofing it, so prepare yourself for some long walks, with ample rewards: skyline views, sights of ferries crossing the Hudson River, and the nautical oddity that I will never really get tired of, the tugboat.
Opening Night abounded with stars, from Wallace Shawn to Malcolm Gladwell, and superstars that you may not be aware of, such as Belgian writer Amelie Nothomb, who publishes a... | | | | | |
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