May 2 | FIAF | NYC

With Laurie Anderson, Carrie Brownstein, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Patricia Clarkson, Steve Connell, David Conrad, Mark Z. Danielewski, James Franco, Peter Hirsch, Nick Laird, Walter Mosley, Parker Posey, Lou Reed, Sekou, and Sean Wilsey

Join PEN World Voices for its much-celebrated, always-memorable annual cabaret: an evening of music, literature, writers, and performers unlike any other in the city. This year features rock legend Lou Reed and multimedia guru Laurie Anderson, along with an adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s New York piece in State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America with Parker Posey, James Franco, Peter Hirsch, Sean Wilsey and Carrie Brownstein. Plus readings by novelist Walter Mosley, Irish poet Nick Laird, author Horacio Castellanos Moya, and actor David Conrad, as well as wizard of literary pastiche Mark Z. Danielewski; and a performance by poetry heavy hitters Sekou (Tha Misfit) and Steve Connell.

Cosponsored by FIAF

PHOTO GALLERY
• View the photo gallery on Flickr


LISTEN 
• Introduction to the first half by A.M. Homes
• Walter Mosley
• Horacio Castellanos Moya, David Conrad and Bill McClellan
• Nick Laird
• Introduction to the second half by A.M. Homes
• State by State
• Mark Z. Danielewski
• Sekou and Steve Connell

PEN Blogs

• Jane Ciabattari:
By Saturday night, the week-long PEN World Voices Festival feels like a village where 160 writers from 41 countries, speaking 18 languages, have brought New York’s cultural vortex close to a boil. [More]