Town Hall Readings:
Writing Home

With Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

With David Grossman and Nadine Gordimer

Words Under Confinement:
Prison Writing as Political Act

With Breyten Breytenbach, Massimo Carlotto, Kathleen Cleaver, Susan Rosenberg, and Drake Stutesman

Conversation: Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng



Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage

With Neil Gaiman, Isabel Hoving, Janne Teller, Markus Zusak; moderated by Robert Lipsyte

Postcolonial Writing in a Globalized World

Conversation: Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng

Conversation: Kiran Desai & Vikram Chandra, with Rachel Donadio

The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture with David Grossman

Conversation: Alain Mabanckou & Dany Laferrière, with Anderson Tepper

Conversation: Pico Iyer & Hal Wake

Conversation: Neil Gaiman & Marguerite Abouet, with Sean Wilsey

Conversation: Per Petterson & Marilynne Robinson, with Radhika Jones

Conversation: Guillermo Arriaga & Paul Auster

Conversation: Caryl Phillips & Abdulrazak Gurnah, with Radhika Jones

Reporting on Iraq, Living in Terror: Carolin Emcke & Mark Danner

History and the Truth of Fiction

Words Under Confinement: Prison Writing as Political Act

Voyage and Voyeur: Travel and Travel Writing

Mixing Art and Politics

Words Without Borders: Every Day in Africa

Voices From Today’s Iran

Sex and Danger

Green Thoughts: Writers on the Environment

Youth on the Frontlines: A Program for High School Students

An Evening with The Moth

Gritty Realism

A Believer Nighttime Event

Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage

Town Hall Readings: Writing Home

Multiple Passports: Writers on Homeland and Identity

Dirty Wars: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention, Kidnapping, and Rendition

The PEN Cabaret

A Tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski

A Tribute to César Vallejo