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2011 FESTIVAL PROGRAM
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MONDAY, APRIL 25 | 3 events
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The Public Intellectual
With Manuel de Lope, Peter Godwin, Pierre Guyotat, Linda Polman, and Hervé Le Tellier; moderated by Michael Silverblatt [event details]
PEN Speakeasy: Sex; Erotic Readings
With Yael Hedaya, Honor Moore, Irvine Welsh, Edmund White, and others; hosted by Katie Halper [event details]
[All Monday events]
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TUESDAY, APRIL 26 | 5 events
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A Global Piano and Literary Salon: From Russia with Love
With Igor Belov, Ksenia Shcherbino, and Svetlana Smolina; hosted by Ina Parker [event details]
Everything and More: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
With Rick Moody, Michael Silverblatt, Sandro Veronesi, and others [event details]
[All Tuesday events]
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WEDNESDAY APRIL 27 | 8 events
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How to Start a Revolution (in the Library): Authors Defect from Corporate Publishing
With Carmen Boullosa, Ben Greenman, Karen Finley, Dale Peck, Mykola Riabchuk, Amy Scholder, abd Monika Zgustova; moderated by Lisa Dierbeck of Mischief + Mayhem [event details]
Revolutionaries in the Arab World
With Abdelkader Benali, Abdellah Taia, Rula Jebreal, Alex Nunns, and Issandr El Amrani [event details]
[All Wednesday events]
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THURSDAY, APRIL 28 | 13 events
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A Literary Safari: A Unique Experience
With Nathacha Appanah, Abdelkader Benali, Amelie Nothomb, Teresa Solana, John Burnside, Mircea Cărtărescu, Manuel de Lope, Deborah Eisenberg, Marcelo Figueras, Jonas Hassan Khemiri, Hervé Le Tellier, Daniel Orozco, Gunnhild Øyehaug, and Lynne Tillman [event details]
In Conversation: Pierre Guyotat and Edmund White
[event details]
[All Thursday events]
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FRIDAY, APRIL 29 | 11 events
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Cocktail Hour Reading
With David Bezmozgis, Rahul Bhattacharya, Tomas Espedal, Pierre Guyotat, Shin Kyung-Sook, and Irvine Welsh [event details]
Translation Slam
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[All Friday events]
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SATURDAY, APRIL 30 | 15 events
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Education, Knowledge, Learning
With Tomas Espedal, Esther Klein Friedman, Juan Carlos Mestre, Gunnhild Øyehaug, and Shanley Rhodes; moderated by Eric Pliner [event details]
Vladimir Sorokin: Ice Trilogy (Play Reading)
With Vladimir Sorokin and Kornél Mundruczó [event details]
The Moth at the PEN World Voices Festival: What Went Wrong?
With Jonathan Franzen, Warren Macdonald, Jenny Allen, Edgar Oliver, Elif Shafak; hosted by Salman Rushdie [event details]
[All Saturday events]
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SUNDAY, MAY 1 | 10 events
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In Conversation: Abdellah Taïa and Dale Peck
With Abdellah Taia and Dale Peck [event details]
In Conversation: Mahi Binebine and Anderson Tepper
With Mahi Binbine and Anderson Tepper [event details]
The Sixth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Wole Soyinka
[event details]
[All Sunday events]
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