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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>PEN American Center Podcasts</title><link>http://www.pen.org</link><language>en-au</language><copyright>℗ &amp; © 2006 PEN American Center</copyright><subtitle xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN podcasts will showcase exclusive online conversations, PEN events and programming from PEN World Voices New York Festival of International Literature</subtitle><summary xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights and international literary organization. Its mission is to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship.</summary><description>PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights and international literary organization. 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Homes reads "Coney Island" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the 2004 PEN event State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/soe_2004/homes.mp3" length="1400000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/soe_2004/homes.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:02:46</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">A. M. Homes, PEN American Center, Lawrence Ferlinghetti</keywords></item><item><title>Conversation: Salman Rushdie &amp; Hanan al-Shaykh</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Salman Rushdie &amp; Hanan al-Shaykh discuss Lebanon and how it has informed al-Shaykh's writing in a conversation that took place during the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2005_PWV/alShaykh_Rushdie/entire.mp3" length="4600000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2005_PWV/alShaykh_Rushdie/entire.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">25:31</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Hanan al-Shaykh, Salman Rushdie, Lebanon, World Voices, 2005, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Sam Shepard Reads César Vallejo</title><author 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Monica de la Torre translate Coral Bracho at the Translation Slam event during the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2008_PWV/translation_slam/bra_nov_torre.mp3" length="3000000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2008_PWV/translation_slam/bra_nov_torre.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">20:17</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Idra Novey, Monica de la Torre, Coral Bracho, Translation Slam, 2008 PEN World Voices Festival</keywords></item><item><title>Mohsin Hamid Reads Margaret Atwood</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Mohsin Hamid reads "Notes Toward a Poem That Can Never Be Written" by Margaret Atwood at Face-to-Face: Confronting the Tortures, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2010_PWV/face_to_face/hamid.mp3" length="3500000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2010_PWV/face_to_face/hamid.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">03:35</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Mohsin Hamid, Notes Toward a Poem That Can Never Be Written, Margaret Atwood, Face-to-Face, Conftronting the Tortures, 2010, PEN World Voices Festival, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Billy Sothern Reads from Down in New Orleans</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Billy Sothern reads the final chapter of his book Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City at the New Orleans event during the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure 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28 Feb 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">02:38</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Walter Dean Myers Reads an Editorial from The Crisis Magazine by W. E. B. DuBois</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Walter Dean Myers reads an editorial from The Crisis Magazine by W. E. B. DuBois at the PEN event 2004 State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/soe_2004/myers.mp3" length="2300000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/soe_2004/myers.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:04:52</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Walter Dean Myers, The Crisis Magazine, W. E. B. DuBois, 2004 State of Emergency: Unconventional Readings</keywords></item><item><title>Edwidge Danticat Reads from Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Edwidge Danticat reads from the first chapter of Things Fall Apart at the 2008 event A Tribute to Chinua Achebe.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/achebe/danticat_1.mp3" length="1800000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/achebe/danticat_1.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:09:57</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Edwidge Danticat, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, A Tribute to Chinua Achebe</keywords></item><item><title>Sarah Broom Reads from "Letting Her Go"</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Sarah Broom reads from her article "Letting Her Go," part of the New Orleans event at the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2011_pwv/new_orleans/broom.mp3" length="4600000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2011_pwv/new_orleans/broom.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:04:46</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Sarah Broom, Letting Her Go, New Orleans, 2011 PEN World Voices Festival</keywords></item><item><title>Toni Morrison Reads "English and the African Writer" by Chinua Achebe</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Toni Morrison discusses the lasting impression that Chinua Achebe's literature had on her, followed by a reading of Achebe's "English and the African Writer" at PEN's 2008 Tribute.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/achebe/morrisson_7.mp3" length="4500000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/achebe/morrisson_7.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:25:00</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Toni Morrison, English and the African Writer, PEN American Center, PEN Tribute, Chinua Achebe</keywords></item><item><title>James Baldwin on Race in America</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, we present this 1973 Adirondack Oral Biographical Library interview with James Baldwin on how Americans view history and the state of race relations in his time.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2011/baldwin_int/podcast.mp3" length="8700000" 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Center, PEN America, Make Believe, Poetry</keywords></item><item><title>Langston Hughes Reads "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>A clip of Langston Hughes discussing and reading his poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" from PEN's Tribute to Langston Hughes.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/hughes_tribute/negro_speaks.mp3" length="420000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/hughes_tribute/negro_speaks.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:02:20</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Langston Hughes, PEN American Center, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Tribute</keywords></item><item><title>Orhan Pamuk Reads from His Novel Istanbul</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Orhan Pamuk reads from his novel Istanbul at the 2006 PEN event The Global City, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Global_City/Pamuk.mp3" length="5100000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2006_world_voices/Global_City/Pamuk.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">09:42</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul, The Global City, 2006, PEN World Voices Festival, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Paulo Lins Reads from City of God</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Paulo Lins reads from his novel City of God at the 2006 PEN event The Global City, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure 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-0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">14:51</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Zakes Mda, The Whale Caller, 2005, PEN World Voices Festival, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Sam Shepard Reads from Motel Chronicles</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Sam Shepard reads from Motel Chronicles at the The PEN Cabaret, part of the 2007 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2007_world_voices/PEN_cabaret/shepard.mp3" length="8700000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2007_world_voices/PEN_cabaret/shepard.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">29:13</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Sam Shepard, Motel Chronicles, The PEN Cabaret, 2007, PEN World Voices Festival, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Conversation with Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>A conversation between Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Leonard Lopate at the event The Three Musketeers Reunited: Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2008_PWV/three_musketeers/convo.mp3" length="11500000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2008_PWV/three_musketeers/convo.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:47:08</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, Mario Vargas Llosa, Leonard Lopate, The Three Musketeers Reunited , PEN American Center, PEN World Voices Festival, 2008</keywords></item><item><title>Yiyun Li Reads from The Vagrants</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Yiyun Li reads from her debut novel The Vagrants at Readings From Around the Globe: Opening Night Extravaganza, part of the 2010 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2010_PWV/opening_night/li.mp3" length="2400000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2010_PWV/opening_night/li.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">0:07:58</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Yiyun Li, PEN American Center, World Voices, Readings From Around the Globe, Opening Night Extravaganza</keywords></item><item><title>Nicole Krauss on Literature in the Digital Age</title><author 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This reading took place at Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State, part of the 2008 PEN World Voices Festival.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2008_PWV/something_to_hide/IngoSchultz.mp3" length="1900000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2008_PWV/something_to_hide/IngoSchultz.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">04:03</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Ingo Schulze, Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, Something to Hide: Writers and Artists Against the Surveillance State, 2008 PEN World Voices Festival, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>David Cole and Art Spiegelman Read at Reckoning with Torture</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>David Cole reads an excerpt from a legal memo signed by Jay Bybee relating to the proposed interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, while Art Spiegelman reads excerpts from detainee Abu Zubaydah's first-hand account of his interrogation, as part of the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror".</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2009/torture/cole_spiegelman.mp3" length="2300000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2009/torture/cole_spiegelman.mp3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">12:35</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">David Cole, Art Spiegelman, Abu Zubaydah, Jay Bybee, CIA interrogation techniques, Reckoning with Torture, War on Terror, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Banned Books: A Conversation with Robie Harris, Carolyn Mackler, Peter Parnell, and Perri Klass</title><author xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">PEN American Center</author><description>Author, educator, and physician Perri Klass moderates a conversation between children's and young adult book authors Robie Harris, Carolyn Mackler, and Peter Parnell about their books, book banning, and self-censorship.</description><enclosure url="http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/harris_patron_klass.mp3" length="18900000" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure><guid>http://www.pen.org/audio_archive/2010/banned_books/2010-banned-bks.mp3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate><duration xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">31:31</duration><keywords xmlns="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd">Banned Books Week, Robie Harris, Carolyn Mackler, Peter Parnell, Perri Klass, censorship, children's literature, PEN American Center</keywords></item><item><title>Robie H. 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