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.jpg) The Fall Literary Tasting
November 17 | Westbeth Center for the Arts | New York City
What should you be reading this season? One of New York City’s hippest and most experienced book sellers talks about the runaway secrets, the beloved hits and the must-reads of the 2011 fall season, along with a night of special readings.
 The Global Salon: Cities in Sweden
November 10 | The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space | New York City
Eddie Robinson hosts a night of conversation and performances around the cultural, political, and economic transformation of Sweden, including a collision of issues captured in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
 Breakout: Voices from Inside
November 9 | The National Arts Club | New York City
PEN Members and special guests gather for a reading of award-winning prose and poetry from the PEN Prison Writing Contest at the annual fundraiser for the Prison Writing Program.
.jpg) PEN American and PEN Mexico Mark Day of the Dead
November 2 | La Palapa Restaurant | New York City
PEN American Center joins PEN Mexico for a candle lighting celebration to inaugurate an altar commemorating the nine journalists and writers who have been murdered in Mexico this year.
New Members/New Books Party
November 1 | powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street | Brooklyn
PEN celebrates new Members and honors writers who have had new books published this year.
The Global Salon: Cities in Egypt
October 27 | The Jerome L. Greene Space at WNYC | New York
PEN American Center and WNYC explore the role of women and youth in the recent Egypt revolution, through the perspective of music.
 PEN’s Literary Pub Quiz at Brooklyn Book Festival
September 16 | St. Ann’s Warehouse | Brooklyn
With Gabe Boylan of Harper's, George Prochnik of Cabinet Magazine, James Yeh of Gigantic Magazine, Scott Lindenbaum and Andy Hunter of Electric Literature, Ben Greenman, Matthea Harvey, Amy Sohn, and more; hosted by Katie Halper.
 PEN American Center and The New School Present: An Evening with Liao Yiwu
September 13 | The New School, Tishman Auditorium | New York City
With Liao Yiwu, Salman Rushdie, and Philip Gourevitch
 Reckoning with Torture: Lincoln Center
May 24 | Lincoln Center | New York City
With Russell Banks, Col. Morris Davis, Peter Godwin, Beth Gutcheon, Rula Jebreal, Dahlia Lithwick, John Buffalo Mailer, Aasif Mandvi, Kati Marton, Bill Moyers, Jack Rice, Lili Taylor, Dianne Wiest, and others, with original artwork by Jenny Holzer. Directed by Doug Liman
 Reading: Prison Writing Award–Winning Plays at New Dramatists
May 23 | New Dramatists | New York City
With welcoming remarks and introduction by Jackson Taylor and Susan Rosenberg
 A Global Piano and Literary Salon: Bebop Spoken Here
May 12 | The Jerome L. Greene Space at WNYC | New York City
With Gerald Clayton, Hod O’Brien, and Carl Hancock Rux; hosted by Ina Parker
 A Global Piano and Literary Salon: Beyond Bollywood
February 24 | The Greene Space at WNYC | New York City
With pianist Arunesh Nadgir and authors Hirsh Sawhney and Karan Mahajan; hosted by Ina Howard-Parker
 Borough, Barrio, Block: New York Neighborhoods, and How They Got That Way
February 16 | Midtown Manhattan | New York City
With Michele Carlo, T.J. English, Michael Friedman, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and Esmeralda Santiago
 Writing Dangerously
February 7 | Instituto Cervantes | New York City
With Adam Gidwitz, Gary Golio, Nora Raleigh Baskin, and Rita Williams-Garcia; moderated by Beverly Horowitz
 PEN at 2011 AWP in Washington, D.C.
February 2–5 | Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels, Washington, D.C.
 Reckoning with Torture: Sundance Film Festival
January 29 | Sundance Film Festival | Park City, Utah
With Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Alex Gibney, George Saunders, Naomi Wolf, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Cisneros, Marilynne Robinson, Jack Rice, Matt Alexander, and others; directed by Doug Liman
 Viva the Belarus Free Theater
January 19 | Le Poisson Rouge | New York City
With Billy Crudup, Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, Tom Stoppard, Iva Bittova, and the Belarus Free Theatre
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