Nobody does Reverence and Big Boys, I mean Genuflection and Great Literature, like that Cathedral of High Art, the 92nd Street Y.
Or so I suspect, having never before been to that Hallowed Place.
“Readings from Around the Globe,” a PEN World Voices event, began with Bernard Convent reading for Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi, and included Bernardo Atxaga, Petina Gappah, Mariken Jongman, Michael Ondaatje, Daniel Sada, Hwang Sok-yong, and Colm Toibin--only a handful of whom write in English, but whose works were translated on a screen behind them. I wish we had more such events, and at cheaper ticket prices (if not free), and more frequently, to help bring the people of the world closer together. Why don’t we have writers... |
