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Saturday, May 2

browse free events


11 a.m.
Tribute to Harold Pinter

With Harry Burton, Alastair Macaulay, Emily Mann, and other special guests [event details]

1 p.m.
Coraline, Sandman: Books and Imagination:
A Conversation with Neil Gaiman


1 p.m.
Mark Z. Danielewski and Rick Moody in Conversation


1 p.m.
Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa

With Ken Wiwa, Richard North Patterson, with a reading by Steve Connell and Sekou; moderated by Okey Ndibe [event details]

1 p.m.
Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti

With Dany Laferrière and Madison Smartt Bell [event details]

1 p.m.
Where Truth Lies: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction

With Marlon James, Jan Kjærstad, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and Roxana Robinson; moderated by Noreen Tomassi [event details]

2 p.m.
New European Poets

With Christopher Bakken, Peter Covino, Marilyn Hacker, Rika Lesser, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Adam Sorkin, and Alissa Valles; hosted by Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer [event details]

2 p.m.
Jazz: The Revolution of Beat

With Jayne Cortez, Gary Giddins, Bill Zavatsky, and special guests; moderated by composer Carman Moore [event details]

2:30 p.m.
1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling

With Emmanuel Guibert, David Polonsky, and Shaun Tan; moderated by Jonathan Ames [event details]


2:30 p.m.
Enrique Vila-Matas & Paul Auster in Conversation

3 p.m.
Writers Who Are Translators

With Brian Evenson, Forrest Gander, Cole Swensen, and Paul Verhaeghen; moderated by Martin Rikera [event details]

3 p.m.
Frankétienne: Haitian Creole



3 p.m.
Péter Nádas in Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn

4 p.m.
Contested Territory
With Zsófia Bán, Wafaa Bilal, Petina Gappah, and Raja Shehadeh; moderated by Anderson Tepper [event details]

4:30 p.m.
Revolutionary Writers: Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine


4:30 p.m.
East–West Storytelling

With Nadeem Aslam, Nam Le, Fuad Rifka, and Antje Rávic Strubel; moderated by John Freeman [event details]

5 p.m.
On Translation

With Morten Ramsland, Santiago Roncagliolo, Antje Rávic Strubel, and Joseph Boyden; moderated by Michael F. Moore [event details]

5 p.m.
Krik? Krak!

With Buyu Ambroise, Martina Bruno, Michèle Voltaire Marcelin, and Etienne Télémaque [event details]

7:30 p.m.


The PEN Cabaret
With Laurie Anderson, Carrie Brownstein, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Steve Connell, David Conrad, Mark Z. Danielewski, James Franco, Peter Hirsch, Nick Laird, Walter Mosley, Parker Posey, Lou Reed, Sekou, and Sean Wilsey [event details]

8 p.m.
Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda

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