April 25 | The Town Hall | New York City

With Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef

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Copyright © 2007 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center

 LISTEN 
• Entire event

LISTEN TO SEGMENTS
• Don DeLillo reads from Falling Man 
• Kiran Desai reads from The Inheritance Of Loss 
• Neil Gaiman reads from the postscript to American Gods and "Instructions"
• Nadine Gordimer reads excerpts from "The Ultimate Safari"
• Alain Mabanckou reads "À ma mère"
• Steve Martin reads from Born Standing Up
• Salman Rushdie reads "The Ground"
• Pia Tafdrup reads poems 
• Tatyana Tolstaya reads from The Slynx
• Saadi Youssef reads “Another Paris Morning”

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