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Monday: 7 p.m.
The Diversity Test: Gender and Literature in Translation

With Lorraine Adams, Alex Epstein, and Norman Rush; moderated by Claire Messud >> Buy tickets

Tuesday: 7 p.m.
The 2010 PEN Literary Gala

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Wednesday: 8 p.m. 
Readings from Around the Globe: Opening Night Extravaganza

With Mohsin Hamid, László Krasznahorkai, Yiyun Li, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, Sofi Oksanen, Atiq Rahimi, Salman Rushdie, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Patti Smith, Andrzej Stasiuk,and Miguel Syjuco. >> Buy tickets

Thursday: 7 p.m.
Homesick: Eshkol Nevo in Conversation with Michael Orthofer

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Thursday: 7 p.m.
An Around the World Reading

With Preston L. Allen, Javier Cercas, Siri Hustvedt, Karl O. Knausgaard, Anne Landsman, Thomas Pletzinger, Monique Proulx, Lee Stringer, Christos Tsiolkas, and Tommy Wieringa >> Buy tickets

Thursday: 7 p.m.
New York Stories

With Quim Monzó, Darryl Pinckney, Roxanna Robinson, and Colm Tóibín; moderated by Edwin Frank >> Buy tickets

Thursday: 7 p.m.
Adaptation: From Page to Screen

With Philippe Djian, Barry Gifford, Richard Price, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint; directed by Francine Prose >> Buy tickets

Thursday: 8 p.m.
Weather Report: What Can We Do?

With Jostein Gaarder, James Hansen, Frederic Hauge, Bjørn Lomborg, Bill McKibben, Andrew Revkin, and Cynthia Rosenzweig; moderated by Robert Silvers >> Buy tickets

Thursday: 9:30 p.m.
Face-to-Face: Confronting the Torturers: A PEN Freedom to Write Event

With Alina Bronsky, Rodrigo Fresán, Mohsin Hamid, Aleksandar Hemon, Randa Jarrar, Irakli Kakabadze, Elias Khoury, valter hugo mãe, Aasif Mandvi, Sofi Oksanen, Peter Schneider, and special guests >> Buy tickets

Friday: 6:30 p.m. 
The Big Poetry Reading

With Naja Marie Aidt, Barry Gifford, valter hugo mãe, and Pavel Nastin >> Buy tickets

Friday: 7 p.m. 
The Great Fire—Shirley Hazzard in Conversation with Richard Ford

With Richard Ford and Shirley Hazzard, along with special guests for readings of Shirley Hazzard’s work >> Buy tickets

Friday: 8 p.m. 
Translation Slam

With Alex Epstein, Assaf Gavron, Barbara Harshav, Cathy Park Hong, Thomas Pletzinger, and Martin Pollack; moderated by Michael F. Moore >> Buy tickets


Saturday: 1 p.m. 
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Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation

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Saturday: 1 p.m. 
New European Fiction

With Naja Marie Aidt, Aleksandar Hemon, valter hugo mãe, Colum McCann, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint >> Buy tickets

Saturday: 3 p.m.
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Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation with Anthony Appiah 

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Saturday: 3 p.m. 
Translation Master Class with Edith Grossman

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Saturday: 3:30 p.m. 
War

With Deborah Amos, Philip Gourevitch, Arnon Grunberg, Sebastian Junger, and Daniele Mastrogiacomo; introduced by Steven Isenberg, executive director, PEN American Center >> Buy tickets

Saturday: 4:30 p.m.
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Anne Frank: The Diary, the Girl, and the Publishing Phenomenon

With Ernie Colón, Sid Jacobson, and Francine Prose; moderated by Judith Thurman of The New Yorker >> Buy tickets

Saturday: 6 p.m. 
Poetry Reading and Reception

With Homero Aridjis, Ariel Dorfman, Cathy Park Hong, Inga Kuznetsova, and Marlene van Niekerk >> Buy tickets

Saturday: 8 p.m. 
The Fourth Annual PEN Cabaret

With Irakli Kakabadze, Natalie Merchant, Ben Okri, Ariel Dorfman and special guests; emceed by Rakesh Satyal >> Buy tickets

Sunday: 1 p.m.
Iran: A Conversation with Maziar Bahari and The Daily Show’s Jason Jones


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Sunday: 1 p.m.
Ben Okri in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Anderson Tepper

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Sunday: 2:30 p.m.
Roddy Doyle in Conversation with Colum McCann

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Sunday: 2:30 p.m.
Two Worlds


With Eduardo Lago, Anne Landsman, José Manuel Prieto, and Salman Rushdie; moderated by Adam Gopnik >> Buy tickets

Sunday: 4 p.m.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid in Conversation with Akhil Sharma


With Mohsin Hamid and Akhil Sharma; introduced by Philip Gourevitch >> Buy tickets

Sunday: 4:30 p.m.
Ariel Dorfman in Conversation with Gabriel Sanders


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Sunday: 6:30 p.m.
Christopher Hitchens: The Fifth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture


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