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| Sunday, May 3, 2009 11:35PM | | | | PEN World Voices Cabaret | Tags: Walter Mosley, Nick Laird, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Matt Wieland, Sean Wilsey, Parker Posey, Patricia Carlson, Laurie Anderson, Salman Rushdie, Lou Reed, Mark Danielewski, James Franco, Peter Hirsch, Steve Connell, Sekou, David Conrad, Zadie Smith
| | | By Saturday night, the week-long PEN World Voices Festival feels like a village where 160 writers from 41 countries, speaking 18 languages, have brought New York’s cultural vortex close to a boil.
Time for a World Voices variety show, the PEN Cabaret. Savvy Walter Mosley reads a brief chapter. Northern Irish poet Nick Laird reads a few poems (with self deprecating humor thrown in). He introduces his poem “To the Wife” as “a sonnet in a sentence, not a boast.” (In his case, the wife is Zadie Smith.)
Salvadoran novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya’s reads (in Spanish, with simultaneous English by actor David Conrad, and a drum backup) from Senselessness, his eighth novel. The haunting and repeated opening line, “I am... | | | | | |
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