http://www.pen.org en-au ℗ & © 2006 PEN American Center PEN podcasts will showcase exculsive online conversations, PEN events and programming from PEN World Voices New York Festival of International Literature PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. Its mission is to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship. PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. Its mission is to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship. PEN podcasts will showcase exculsive online conversations, PEN events and programming from PEN World Voices New York Festival of International Literature PEN American Center info@pen.org PEN American Center no http://www.pen.org/penpodcasts/penpodcasts.xml PEN American Center A program for high school students; with Ishmael Beah, Uzodinma Iweala, Linda Sue Park; moderated by Donna Barkman. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2007_world_voices/youth/youth.mp3 Fri, 11 May 2007 15:00:00 -0400 1:17:08 Ishmael, Beah, Uzodinma, Iweala, Linda, Sue, Park, Barkman PEN, World, Voices PEN American Center Introduction by PEN President Francine Prose. Lecture by David Grossman followed by a conversation with Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer. Concluding statement by Salman Rushdie. http://pen.org/audio_archive/2007_world_voices/grossman.mp3 Fri, 04 May 2007 15:00:00 -0400 1:19:47 Grossman, Nadine, Gordimer, Rushdie, PEN, World, Voices PEN American Center Hosted by Staceyann Chin and featuring readings by Helen Oyeyemi, Willie Perdomo, and teen writers representing Hanging Loose Press, Girls Write Now, Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and the PEN Writing Institute. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/author-to-author/author-author_entire.mp3 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:00:00 -0400 :37:16 Staceyann, Chin, Oyeyemi, Perdomo, Hanging, Loose, PEN, World, Voices PEN American Center Featuring readings from renowned Russian journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya's work and a conversation about the costs of an ongoing but forgotten war. With Musa Klebnikov, Kati Marton, Dana Priest, Francine Prose, David Remnick, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and Natalia Estemirova from "Memorial" Human Rights Center. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/AnnaP/AnnaP.mp3 Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:00:00 -0400 1:18:16 Politkovskaya, Russia, Musa, Estemirova, Klebnikov, Kati, Marton, Priest, Prose, Remnick, Schroeder, vanden, Heuvel, PEN PEN American Center As the government issues more and more secret orders seeking previously private information, and at the same time seeks new ways to shield the expanding realm of government secrets from public scrutiny, individual citizens are taking risky, at times harrowing, stands on behalf of the First Amendment. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/Press_club.mp3 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:00:00 -0400 1:18:16 Feldstein, Bailey, Nocek, Esposito, Risen, Orhan, Chernow, Christian, Amendment, Schroeder, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: the fear of loneliness and the luxury of solitude; beauty in the urban landscape; the community of melancholy and the nobility of failure; the beautiful woman behind City of God; architecture and nostalgia. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Global_City/Global.mp3 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:00:00 -0400 1:22:58 Alaa, Al-Aswany, Lins, Mazzucco, Monsiváis, Orhan, Pamuk, Suketu, Mehta, PEN PEN American Center For millions, the Internet is now the go-to place for news, opinion, advice, advocacy, outrage, connection, and community. But as information disseminates at lightning speed, what happens to “fact”? When every rumor, prevarication, hallucination, or fantasy instantly goes global, is there any way to detach truth from lies? http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/just_the_facts/Just_the_Facts.mp3 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:36:00 -0400 57:48 Ammar, Abdulhamid, Darr, George, Saunders, Åsne, Seierstad, Tifft, Weisberg, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: magical realism and the problem with "isms"; the overwhelming influence of Cervantes; President Clinton's favorite book; disastrous moments in translation; getting lost as a translator; the instinct of choosing the right words. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/Grossman_Rabassa.mp3 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:00:00 -0400 33:42 Grossman, Rabassa, moore, translation, PEN PEN American Center Working with myth—seeking new meaning in mankind’s oldest stories—is one of the greatest literary challenges. Writers who have rewritten myths for modern audiences discuss the complexities of making them new. With David Grossman, Milton Hatoum, Anne Provoost, Jeanette Winterson; moderated by Colum McCann http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/writing_myth/writing_myth_entire.mp3 Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:05:00 -0400 1:23:51 Grossman, Milton, Hatoum, Provoost, Jeanette, Winterson, Colum, McCann, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: mental suicide; the dynamics and burden of guilt; the courage scale in international censorship; exiled writers vs. exiled writing; negotiating authenticity from a multinational identity; the marginalization of the Internet; and the universal appeal of the exiled writer. http://pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Exiles%20in%20America.mp3 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:38:00 -0400 1:07:10 Abani, Ammar, Abdulhamid, Yiyun, Li, Palast, Huang, Xiang, Scammell, PEN PEN American Center With Juan Luis Cebrián, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nilüfer Göle, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tariq Ramadan; moderated by Ian Buruma. Writers from several countries discuss the shifting and increasingly perilous terrain surrounding art and religion. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/idols_and%20_insults/idols_insults_entire.mp3 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:05:00 -0400 1:21:10 Cebrián, Upamanyu, Chatterjee, Enzensberger, Nilüfer, Göle, Ayaan, Hirsi, Ali, Tariq, Ramadan, Buruma, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: the midwife of history; Galileo Galilei; normality vs. utopianism; the witty, the moving, and the grim; religion as revolutionary force; revolutions that didn't make it; the struggle against cliche; Spain as a model for democracy; liberation theology; and which revolution has the most life left in it. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Revolution/Revolution.mp3 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:22:00 -0400 1:41:46 Gioconda, Belli, Baltasar, Garzón, Adam, Michnik, Tamás, Hitchens, Revolution, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: accepting the fate of the troublemaker; writing as moral imperative; writing vs. table tennis; truth and beauty; William James and war as a companion for humankind; fighting the foreign but not the internal enemy in Vietnam. http://pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Duong%20Thu%20Huong.mp3 Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:28:47 -0400 51:08 Thu, Duong, Huong, Stone, Audouard, PEN, Vietnam PEN American Center Philip Gourevitch, editor of <i>The Paris Review</i> interviews James Risen, New York Times reporter and author of <i>State of War : The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration</i> http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/podcasts/risen.mp3 Sun, 9 Apr 2006 19:28:47 -0400 1:00:00 Risen, Gourevetich, NSA, Bush, Spying, PEN, Paris PEN American Center Discussed: mother courage and Günter Grass, the ruthless limits set on free expression, Miller and Pinter’s trip to Istanbul, the solidarity of writers, the inextricable bonds between free expression and dignity, internal civil wars, the connection between apples and sex, similarities between children and novelists, the Dixie Chick effect, the path from wannabe painter to great novelists. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/pamuk/pamuk_atwood_rushdie.mp3 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no 1:00:00 Atwood, Pamuk, Rushdie, Snow, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: The inspiration for "Actually, I've Had Some Phenomenal Hard-Ons Lately," writing as surfing, Keret's wife's waddle, screenwriting to meet women, understanding the Holocaust, schmoozing, the big purpose of fiction, and holding on to ambiguity while living in the Middle East. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/BenettonTalk/4_28_keret_saunders/audio/keret_saunders.mp3 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no 1:00:00 Etgar, Keret, Saunders, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: Mono-linguistic American Writers, "A Day In The Life" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, narrative emulating collage, narrative as a posteriori knowledge, almost killing Jorge Luis Borges, being kidnapped, childhood and death, the relation of artists to neoteny. http://pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/BenettonTalk/4_29_fresan_lethem/audio/Lethem_Fresan_entire.mp3 Mon, 1 May 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no 00:54:39 Lili, Talyor, Rodrigo, Fresan, Lethem, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: Trans-cultural migration and identity, the verbosity of Indians, the recent or not so recent invention of Indian identity, how one can't think about freedom without considering the economic components, class similarities in the victims of Hindu/Muslim violence, class and the ability to choose the weight one gives to sectarian identities, the unholy alliance between Islamic extremism and western parochialism, the clash of civilizations thesis. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Amartya_Sen_Salman_Rushdie/sen_rushdie_entire.mp3 Wed, 3 May 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no 01:09:09 Salman, Rushdie, Amartya, Sen, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: The need for a new period of Islamic Enlightenment, living as a Muslim atheist in Holland, the urgency of scrutinizing Islam from within, the liberal betrayal and freezing Islam in place, finding a balance between faith and reason and life here and in the hereafter, whether or not the Prophet Mohamed should be seen a moral guide for contemporary culture, the difference between Christian and Muslim provincialism. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/ali_gourevitch/ali_gourevitch_entire.mp3 Mon, 8 May 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no 01:08:53 Ali, Gourevitch, Hirsi, Islam, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: Doubt; Pascal’s approach to faith; a plausible refutation of religion,; the nepotistic figure of Christ; hadith and the theological gamble of suicide bombings; time and its eternal return; end-time theology and similarities between Ronald Reagan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/amis_mcgrath/Amis-McGrath_entire.mp3 Wed, 10 May 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no 01:02:46 Amis, McGrath, Pascal, Reagan, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: the brain of H. G. Wells, the infrastructure of a good old-fashioned American literary event, the six oaths of the virtuous child, our inevitable biological predisposition toward fiction, Ibsen and Loveborg, imaginary friends, and how to come out of the closet as a political writer. http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/believer/Believer.mp3 Fri, 12 May 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no 01:02:46 Believer, Nighttime, Hodgman, Fresán, Rushdie, PEN PEN American Center Discussed: Replicating what is well within the realm of human experience; slightly unhinged father figures; putting pressure on characters and how they react; the powerful imprint of growing up; returning to the childhood house in Newark; incorporating the larger narratives of history into novels about family, grief and humor; rereading Conrad. Also included: readings from <i>Everyman</i>, <i>Patrimony: A True Story</i>, and <i>Operation Shylock: A Confession</i> http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/Philip_Roth1.mp3 Fri, 26 May 2006 12:45:47 -0400 no :39:29 Roth, Philip, Everyman, Nabokov, PEN