Thursday, April 30

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10 a.m.
Personal Evolution, Social Revolution:
A Program for High School Students

Edwidge Danticat, Dany Laferrière, Laila Lalami, and Colum McCann; moderated by Benjamin Anastas [event details]

1 p.m.
Jeffrey Sachs: Common Wealth



1 p.m.
Global Voices

With Salwa Al Neimi, Joseph Boyden, Lilian Faschinger, Clemens Meyer, and Peter Weber [event details]

3 p.m.
Orange Groves, Olives, and The Last Fish Tale

With Mark Kurlansky and Raja Shehadeh; moderated by Matt Weiland [event details]

4 p.m.
Tendencies in Spanish Language Literature

With Bernardo Atxaga, Javier Calvo, Santiago Roncagliolo, and Enrique Vila-Matas; moderated by Barbara Epler [event details]

4:30 p.m.
Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Kathrin Röggla: Modern Day Salarymen


6 p.m.
Language in New Forms: The Work of Andrey Platonov

With T.J. Clark, Wendy Lesser, Michael Ondaatje, and Francine Prose [event details]

6 p.m.
Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling

With Wafaa Bilal, Kathrin Röggla, and Josep-Maria Terricabras; moderated by Sameer Padania [event details]

6:30 p.m.
Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children’s Book Writer

With Neil Gaiman, Mariken Jongman, and Shaun Tan; moderated by Andrea Davis Pinkney [event details]

6:30 p.m.
Kafka in America

With Louis Begley, Norbert Gstrein, Mark Harman, Lynne Tillman, and Colm Tóibín; moderated by Jonathan Taylor [event details]

7 p.m.
Meir Shalev in Conversation with Daniel Menaker


7 p.m.
Collaborations/Elaborations:
The Music of Daniel Felsenfeld

With Mark Z. Danielewski, Daniel Felsenfeld, Rick Moody, and Wesley Stace [event details]

7 p.m.
The Moth Presents:
(R)evolution: Stories of Change

With Salwa Al Neimi, Petina Gappah, László Garaczi, Salman Rushdie, and Tom Shillue [event details]

7:30 p.m.
The New York Review of Books:
The Economic Crisis and How to Deal with It

With Senator Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, and Robin Wells; moderated by Jeff Madrick and introduced by Robert Silvers [event details]

8 p.m.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

With Muriel Barbery and Adam Gopnik [event details]

8 p.m.
Island Dialogues: Poets from Cuba and the Balearic Islands

With Rafael Bordao, Edward Hirsch, Jaime Manrique, Biel Mesquida, Margalida Pons, Carles Rebassa, and Manuel Vázquez Portal [event details]

9 p.m.
DEFIANCE: The Spirit of ’89

With Eszter Babarczy, Jose Dalisay, Nick Flynn, Sergio Ramírez, Hwang Sok-Yong, János Térey, and Paul Verhaeghen [event details]