Hamilton-PEN World Voices '09
| Monday, May 4, 2009 6:26AM | | | | My People | Posted By: Masha Hamilton
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| Tags: World Voices, Readers, World Literature, Reading Statistics | | | I attended a variety of panels over these last few days covering a smorgasbord of topics—truth and deceptions, political atrocities and censorship, the future of literature and its past—but there has been one blissful and unexpected unifying factor. In every audience, in casual conversations, I’ve found kindred spirits of that rarest of types—the person who not only reads, but cares passionately about, world literature.
In moments squeezed in before or after a panel from the Upper East Side to Brooklyn, waiting to use the restroom or lined up to get in to an event, I’ve chatted to poets and literary agents and other novelists; I’ve spoken to writers and readers of a variety of ages and background, and over and over again, I’ve met... | | | | | | | |
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