April 26, 2007 | Joe's Pub | New York City

Co-sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union

With Lisa Appignanesi, Antoine Audouard, Breyten Breytenbach, Mark Danner, Dorothea Dieckmann, Alex Gibney, Nadine Gordimer, Arnon Grunberg, Daniel Oreskes, Francine Prose, Gloria Reuben, Rose Styron, and others. 

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Copyright © 2007 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center

 LISTEN 
• Entire event (1:32:58)

LISTEN TO SEGMENTS
• Introduction by Larry Siems (3:38)

• Dorothea Dieckmann, reading from her novel Guantánamo (5:10)

• Antoine Audouard, reading From Journey to Hell by Mourad Benchallali & Antoine Audouard (6:39)

• Arnon Grunberg, reading his article “At Guantánamo There Is No Why” (7:47)

• Alex Gibney, reading from the Department of Defense interrogation log of detainee Al-Khatani (7:10)

• Francine Prose, reading from FBI e-mail messages from Guantánamo (7:17)

• Mark Danner, reading from declaration of detainee #______, Abu Ghraib Prison (9:28)

• Daoud Heidami & Daniel Oreskes, reading from a transcript of Combatant Status Review tribunal hearing of “Mustafa” (7:58)

• Rose Styron, reading “The General,” by Isabel Hilton (7:20)

• Breyten Breytenbach, reading his poem “letter to butcher from abroad” (5:58)

• Lisa Appignanesi, reading from the final, unfinished column of Anna Politkovskaya (5:08)

• Nadine Gordimer, from Scatter the Ashes and Go, by Mongane Wally Serote (11:32)

From the PEN Blogs

• Timothy Liu:
The evening’s unintended lesson seemed to be this: when you’ve got the hard facts about torture, secret detention, extraordinary rendition and the...[More]