READINGS 2004 State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings 2005 State of Emergency: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention & Extraordinary Rendition 2006 PEN Prison Awards: Entire Event 2006 PEN Prison Writing Awards 2007 Beyond Margins Awards 2007 Beyond Margins Awards 2007 Literary Awards Ceremony 2007 Literary Awards: Beyond Margins Awards 2007 Literary Awards: Bradford Morrow 2007 Literary Awards: David Hinton 2007 Literary Awards: Diane Les Becquets 2007 Literary Awards: Janna Levin 2007 Literary Awards: Naomi Iizuka & A.R. Gurney 2007 Literary Awards: Prison Writing Awards 2007 Literary Awards: Sandra Smith 2007 PEN Literary Awards: Entire Event 2008 Prison Writing Contest: A Reading 2009 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony: Billy Collins 2009 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony: Claudia Roth Pierpont A Believer Nighttime Event: Entire A Believer Nighttime Event A Believer Nighttime Event: Entire A Letter from Xinna A Tribute to Chinua Achebe: Entire Event A Tribute to Grace Paley: An Evening of Readings and Remembrance A Tribute to Robert Walser A Tribute to Robert Walser A. M. Homes Reads “Coney Island” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Woman in Jerusalem From the Interrogation Log of Mohammad al Quhtani From the Interrogation Log of Mohammad al Quhtani Achmat Dangor Reads from Bitter Fruit Adam Haslett Reads from Blood Beats, Vol. 1 by Ernest Hardy The Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz The Hebrew Language Agi Mishol: Look There The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswan Alain Mabanckou Reads "À ma mère" Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Reads from The Secret Gardens of Mogador Alfre Woodard Reads from Chris Abani's Graceland Amartya Sen Reads from Identity and Violence Amchat Dangor: Africa and the World “Rhythm Travel” Our Man Jimmy From George Tenet's Appearance on 60 Minutes From George Tenet's Appearance on 60 Minutes From a Combatant Status Review Tribunal From a Combatant Status Review Tribunal Behzti by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti An Evening with the Moth An Evening Without... An Evening Without...: Entire event Ana Castillo Tells a Story About Swimming with Sharks Parce Que C'était Lui El Perfume del Cardamomo Introduction to The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min “A Yard of Cloth” by Annie Proulx Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins Anouar Benmalek Reads Work by Tahar Djaout and Said Mekbel The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret Anthony Rapp: The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret Anthony Romero Introduces Something to Hide Introduction to Banned Voices No Man's Land by Duong Thu Huong Antonio Muñoz Molina Speaks at The Power of the Pen Antonio Muñoz Molina Discusses Don Quixote The Jewish Messiah by Arnon Grunberg Author to Author “Smell” Azar Nafisi Reads “An Honest Description of Myself …” by Czeslaw Milosz Banned Voices Susan B. Anthony Statement read by Barbara Goldsmith Elegies: For Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso Bearing Witness in Chechnya: The Legacy of Natalia Estemirova "Preparation" by Czeslaw Milosz and "Untitled" by Bei Dao Poetry “As Clouds Do Drift” “The Mysterious Anxiety of Them and Us” BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Azhar Abidi & Monique Truong BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Azhar Abidi & Monique Truong BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Etgar Keret & George Saunders BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Mixed Media BenettonTalk Young Writers Series: Mixed Media: Writers on Their Languages “Among the Generals” by Antonio Tabucchi Three Pieces About the Basque Language “Life According to Adam” and Other Poems Bilingual Reading: David Huerta & Mark Schafer Bill Irwin Reads from Chris Abani's Graceland Billy Collins: "Rain" Billy Crudup and Margaret Colin Perform a Short Play by Tom Stoppard Boris Akunin Discusses Writing Crime Fiction in Russia Breakout: Voices from Inside "Preparation" by Czeslaw Milosz Breyten Breytenbach: Africa and the World Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi Dominion by Calvin Baker Mexican Postcards Carlos Monsiváis Carme Riera Reads in Catalan Tombstone by Yang Jisheng Cecilia Vicuña and Forrest Gander Read César Vallejo Chen Pokong Speaks on Behalf of the Independent Chinese PEN Center Skipping Without Ropes by Jack Mapanje “On the Subject of Silence and Speaking Out About Tibet” by Tsering Woeser Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart, Chapter 1 Things Fall Apart, Chapter 14 A Tribute to Chinua Achebe Christos Tsiolkas Reads from The Slap “Fighting the Ninja” by Charles Norman Clayton Eshlema Reads from Poemas Humanos Closing Remarks from Lawrence Weschler and Salman Rushdie Colin Channer Reads Autopsy of an Engine by Lolita Hernandez Colin Channer Reads from And It Don't Stop by Raquel Cepeda Brooklyn Dancer “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats Colum McCann: Personal Evolution, Social Revolution Conversation: Elena Milashina & Tanya Lokshina Conversation: Hwang Sok Yong & Ko Un Conversation: Hwang Sok Yong & Ko Un Conversation: Salman Rushdie & Hanan al-Shaykh Conversations in the Library: Zadie Smith & Kurt Andersen Firefly Under the Tongue by Coral Bracho “Among These Ruins” and “Water's Lubricious Edges” Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Crossing Over: The 2009 Beyond Margins Celebration “I Am A Pariah” by Anna Politkovskaya From Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón Will the Boat Sink the Water? by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao Daniele Mastrogiacomo Reads from Days of Fear Dany Laferrière Discusses The Aroma of Coffee The Courage to Stand Alone by Wei Jingsheng The Yellow Wind Diary Entry by John Yarbrough “San Quentin Prison” by David J. Lista (part II) “San Quentin Prison” by David J. Lista Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis by Humberto Constantini Deborah Ellis Reads Collected Stories Deborah Ellis Reads Collected Stories "Dreaming of Richard" by Jeanette Belmar Don DeLillo Reads from Falling Man CIA Memo CIA Memo The Ministry of Pain Dubravka Ugresic: The Ministry of Pain “The Final Salvation” "Preparation" and "Song on Porcelain" by Czeslaw Milosz “Why We Are Infidels” E.L. Doctorow Reads from City of God Edgar Oliver Performs at An Evening with the Moth “Nightmare” by Shen Youlian "Gift" by Czeslaw Milosz Edward P. Jones Reads from Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat “Tourist” and “Boat People” by Felix Morisseau-Leroy Gate of the Sun Elizabeth Alexander Reads from American Sublime Elizabeth Alexander: Africa and the World Emma Reverter Reads “No One Is Alone” by Juan Goytisolo Fourth Excerpt from “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner Second Excerpt from “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner Second Excerpt from “LIVE! From Texas Death Row!” by Christopher Best Third Excerpt from “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner More Things to Be Angry About by Eric Bogosian “A Journal of a Prisoner” by David Lightner Homesick Esmeralda Santiago Reads from Inheritance by Lan Samantha Chang Esmeralda Santiago Reads from Meeting Faith by Faith Adiele Esmeralda Santiago: The Temperature of this Water by Ishle Yi Park “Hat Trick” "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" by Czeslaw Milosz From a Speech by George W. Bush From a Speech by George W. Bush “Midrash on Happiness” by Grace Paley “New York Marathon” and “New York 1999” Story in Catalan and English Francine Prose Introduces Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China Francine Prose Introduces Something to Hide Introductory Remarks Goldengrove Francine Prose Reads Reinaldo Arenas “Days of Illegal Detention” by Li Jianhong “Viktoria and Aleksandr” by Anna Politkovskaya The Long Night of White Chickens Fuad Rifka Reads Translations of His Work Statement by Khaled El-Masri Statement by Khaled El-Masri Gioconda Belli Faith in the Modern World Nobel Lecture by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Global Correspondences: A Reading from the PEN Journal Global Voices: Entire Event Gritty Realism Guillermo Arriaga Reads from A Sweet Scent of Death The Night Buffalo by Guillermo Arriaga “The Wolf” by Adam Broder A Tribute to Chinua Achebe Dear Gabriel Only in London “The Crime and Punishment of Yang Yunbiao, Evictee” by Li Jianqiang Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen Citizen Suarez by Guillermo Verdecchia “Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby” by Donald Barthelme Senselessness How Big a Character is Xin Two Poems by Huang Xiang Poems Hwang Sok Yong: The Guest The Guest From The Old Garden Novel-in-Progress The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhisui Idols & Insults: Writing, Religion, and Freedom of Expression Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll “Information Highway Song” by Guram Urtkmelidze A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Sworn Statement of Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld Sworn Statement of Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld Diary Excerpt from Ernest Rich and "The Man from Far Away" by William Poyck Jacob Arjouni Discusses the Crime Novel 2009 PEN Edmont Holiday Benefit “Lepidoptera or Butterflies” by Richard Miller Introduction to Reckoning With Torture Introduction to Reckoning With Torture Two Lives Janne Teller Discusses Nothing "In the Box on the Stairs" by János Térey “Conversación” Jayne Cortez Reads César Vallejo The Role of Books and Faith “Trousers” by Robert Walser Poems by Grace Paley Jessica Hagedorn Introduces Breakout: Voices from Inside Jessica Hagedorn Reads Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips Jessica Hagedorn: A Killing Trip by Tsering Woeser Jianglin Li Reads “Zhao Ziyang’s Serious Mistake” by Yang Tongyan “Zhao Ziyang’s Serious Mistake” by Yang Tongyan With Fire and Bare Hands “Almost No Memory” and “Happiest Moment” by Lydia Davis Jonathan Ames Introduces A Believer Nighttime Event FBI E-mails, Guantánamo Bay FBI E-mails, Guantánamo Bay Jonathan Mahler on the Surveillance of Maxim Gorky From Paradise Travel, Jorge Franco Josh Kilmer-Purcell Performs at The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling The Sabotage Cafe American Visa Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems When the Emperor Was Divine Just the Facts: Truth & the Internet The Cat or How I Lost Eternity Poems Karl O. Knausgaard Reads from A Time for Everything Keeping Corner “Six Days, Some Remembering” by Grace Paley “The Unfinished Article” by Anna Politkovskaya A Small Corner of Hell by Anna Politkovskaya Keith Gessen Discusses Anna Politkovskaya's Murder Trial Press Excerpts: Kiran Desai & Orhan Pamuk Kiran Desai Reads from The Inheritance of Loss Laila Lalami Discusses Moroccan Children's Literature Laila Lalami Performs at An Evening With the Moth The Weary Blues Larry Siems Introduces Bearing Witness in Chechnya "Preparation" by Czeslaw Milosz Leaving Home as a Rite of Passage Lee Stringer Reads “The Lady Next Door” Diary Entry by Gary Salinas Diary Entry by William Van Poyck “Prison Moon” by Jorge Antonio Renaud Li Jianqiang: The 'Crime' and 'Punishment' of Yang Yunbiao, Evictee The Public-Toilet Manager Lili Taylor Reads Real Karaoke People by Ed Bok Lee Lili Taylor Reads The Man With My Face by Jennifer Tseng Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresán Lili Taylor: Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresan Changing Changing When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park Letter to PEN by Xinna, Wife of Hada Luc Sante Discusses George Simenon Luc Sante Reads from Dirty Snow by George Simenon M.G. Vassanji Reads from The Assassin's Song (Beginning) M.G. Vassanji: The Assassin's Song (Some Thoughts on a Concept Hard to Accept) M.G. Vassanji: The Assassin's Song (The Mystic in the Library) M.G. Vassanji: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Making Art of History: A Program for High School Students “Seeking the True Colour of Things” by Nawal El Saadawi “The Tent” and “A Poor Woman Learns to Write” Margaret Atwood Speaks at Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute Untitled Poem by Scott Walt Marie Ponsot Reads from Recyclopedia by Harryette Mullen Marie Ponsot Reads from The Theater of Night by Alberto Álvaro Ríos Poems by 2008 Prison Writing Award Winners Mariela Dreyfus and Anne Waldman Read César Vallejo Rits From The Bad Girl Mario Vargas Llosa (in Spanish) Song for Night by Chris Abani “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forché “The Fear in Lhasa, as Felt in Beijing” by Tsering Woeser Excerpts from a Longer Piece on Islam “Graham Greene” from Visiting Mrs. Nabokov “Pastoral of Chile XI” by Raúl Zurita Diary Entry by Beverly Jaynes “Kitchen Workers” by Gail Leonard A Higher Kind of Loyalty by Liu Binyan Beijing Coma by Ma Jian Vita by Melania Mazzucco Michael Arena Introduces Bearing Witness in Chechnya "Thousands of Executioners at Large" by Natalia Estemirova “Thousands of Executioners at Large” by Natalia Estemirova “The Loudest Voice” by Grace Paley “Frontline Reflections of a Drug War Journalist” by Eugene Dey Divisadero Anil's Ghost Divisadero “The Great Tree” and Divisadero Easter Rising Illustrado Mike Daisey Performs at The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling “This year, No Losar” by Chad med sha and “Thus, We Vanish!” by Anonymous Mohsin Hamid Reads from The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mónica de la Torre and Edward Hirsch Read César Vallejo Monique Proulx Reads from Wildlives Monique Truong Reads from Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “My Hours Inside the Moscow Theater” by Anna Politkovskaya Nadine Gordimer Reads from “The Ultimate Safari” Naja Marie Aidt Reads Selected Poems Naomi Shihab Nye Reads Mahmoud Darwish Llast by Narcís Comadira “Coixí de cascalls” Natsuo Kirino on Japanese Literature Neil Gaiman Reads from Postscript to American Gods and "Instructions" An Interpreter's Sworn Statement Poetry “Conversation” Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard Nikki Giovanni reads Langston Hughes's "Let America Be America Again" “I Went Out Walking” by Grace Paley Nuruddin Farah Reads from Maps Nuruddin Farah Reads from Maps; Links Oni Lampley Reads from OUT by Natsuo Kirino Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk “Rock, Church” by Langston Hughes Shadow Child (Schaduwkind) Paco Ignacio Taibo on Leonardo's Bicycle Esperanza Rising Sold From The Killer by Patricial Melo “Just Another Death” by Christina MacNaughton “Panopticon” by Diane Hamill Metzger Autopsy Reports of Detainee Deaths Autopsy Reports of Detainee Deaths Paul Auster: 1,001 Laughs City of God by Paulo Lins Pavel Nastin Reads Selected Poems The Bay of Tigers by Pedro Rosa Mendes PEN Talks: Lisa Dierbeck PEN Talks: Roxana Robinson PEN Talks: Susan Rosenberg His Illegal Self Celestial Harmonies Total Fears: Letters to Dubenka by Bohumi Hrabal “My Cousin-Sister Rambanai” Philip Gourevitch Reads "The Public-Toilet Worker" by Liao Yiwu “The Public Toilet Manager” by Liao Yiwu “Kernel,” “My Mother’s Hand,” and “Goodnight” Preston Allen Reads from Jesus Boy Public Lives/Private Lives Public Lives/Private Lives Quixote at 400: Claudio Magris Quixote at 400: Norman Manea Quixote at 400: Paul Auster 33 Moments of Happiness by Ingo Shulze “The Seascape Painter and the Wind Drinker” by Abdourahman Waberi Rafael Campo: Love and Revolution “Federman Without Limits” Reading the World Reading: Author to Author Readings from Around the Globe Readings From Around the Globe: Entire Event Readings from Europe and Mexico Readings: Voices from Inside Reckoning with Torture: Backstage with Jack Rice Egg on Mao Rian Malan Reads an Excerpt from My Traitor’s Heart “The Burdened Man” by Grace Paley Rick Moody Reads a Letter from Xinna “After You, God” by Raul Rivero Rob Breckenridge Reads from Idiots by Jacob Arjouni Rob Breckenridge Reads from Leonardo's Bicycle by Paco Ignacio Taibo "To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only" by Czeslaw Milosz Poems by Czeslaw Milosz Robert Stone: Language of Labyrinth It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris After the Fall Reaching the Center Romantic Realism “Opium Bed” The Invisible Parade Russell Banks Reads from Directions to the Beach of the Dead by Richard Blanco Russell Banks Reads from Our Man in Heaven by Graham Greene Russell Banks Reads from Perfume Dreams by Andrew Lam Russell Banks Reads “How Big a Character is Xin” by Hu Shigen “How Big a Character is Xin” by Hu Shigen To Change the World To Change the World “Another Paris Morning” Salman Rushdie Introduces Faith & Reason Acceptance Speech by Natalia Estemirova From The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie Reads from “Notes on Sloth: From Saligia to Oblomov” “The Ground” “Wild Garlic Gatherers” by Natalia Estemirova Salman Rushdie: Inverted Realism Italo Calvino’s Imaginary Real Salvador Plascencia Presents Endangered L.A. Gang Signs Sam Lipsyte Reads from Home Land Sam Shepard Reads César Vallejo Sam Shepard Reads from Motel Chronicles Motel Chronicles by Sam Shepard Motel Chronicles by Sam Shepard Poems by 2008 Prison Writing Award Winners “Goodbye and Good Luck” by Grace Paley Diary Entry by Charles Patrick Norman Diary Entry by Dennis Forrest Excerpt from “LIVE! From Texas Death Row!” by Christopher Best Sebastian Barry Reads from The Secret Scripture Women Without Men Dragon Fighter by Rebiya Kadeer Short Stories Short Stories Siri Hustvedt Reads from a Forthcoming Novel Small World, Big Choices: A Program for High School Students Small World, Big Choices: Entire Event Sofi Oksanen Reads from Purge Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State Poems by Grace Paley Staceyann Chin Performs “Feminist or Womanist” In-Progress Memoir Diary Excerpts from Malachi Ephraim and Richard Parker “break (clustered)” Suketu Mehta Introduces The Global City The Assistant and The Tanners by Robert Walser The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron “Men’s Revenge” by Natalia Estemirova From The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Teen Writer Representing Hanging Loose Press Reads at Author to Author Tell That Story Again: Writing Myth Now Tell That Story Again: Writing Myth Now The Global City The Global City: Entire Event The Limits of Tolerance?: Multiculturalism Now The Limits of Tolerance?: Multiculturalism Now The Moth: Award-Winning Storytelling The PEN Cabaret: Entire event The Secret Lives of Cities The Secret Lives of Cities The Writer’s Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya & Russia’s Forgotten War Thomas Pletzinger Reads from Funeral for a Dog Todd Solondz Reads Nelson Mandela’s 1962 Court Address Tom Bishop: Language Barriers Tomás Eloy Martínez Discusses the Representation of History Tommy Wieringa Reads from Joe Speedboat Paradise “English and the African Writer” by Chinua Achebe Town Hall Readings: Writing Home Town Hall Readings: Writing Home A Killing Trip Tsitsi Dangarembga Reads "Electing Zimbabwe" Africa and the World From Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Sailor's Home by Uwe Kolbe Say You’re One of Them Say You’re One of Them Beasts of No Nation Beasts of No Nation “Conversación” The Unity Statement by Grace Paley “Living” by Grace Paley “How Big a Character is ‘Xin’” by Hu Shigen Voyage and Voyeur: Travel and Travel Writing James Comey's Testimony Before Senate Judiciary Committee Walter Dean Myers Reads an Editorial from The Crisis Magazine by W. E. B. DuBois New Leonid McGill Novel “Hope” by Ariel Dorfman “Wants” by Grace Paley "Return of the Noun" by Wayne Koestenbaum “The Job Application,” “Dostoevsky's Idiot,” and “The Robber” Smoking Lovely The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout Women Poets from the Middle East Women Poets from the Middle East Words Under Confinement: Prison Writing as Political Act Words Without Borders: Every Day in Africa Writing Faith The Vagrants “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” Young Writers from Girls Write Now Read Their Work “Their Last Visitor” “Thanks” and “Ode to the Maggot” On Beauty The Whale Caller by Zakes Mda Zakes Mda: Africa and the World Home | Site Map | Copyright / Privacy Policy | Contact Us © 2004-2012 PEN American Center. All rights reserved.