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PEN America 8:
Making Histories
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A Believer Nighttime Event
A Believer Nighttime Event

April 29, 2006 | The New School | New York City

With Rodrigo Fresán, Etgar Keret, Yiyun Li, Helen Oyeyemi, Matthew Ritchie, Salman Rushdie, Dubravka Ugresic; moderated by John Hodgman.

Discussed:
the brain of H. G. Wells, the infrastructure of a good old-fashioned American literary event, the six oaths of the virtuous child, our inevitable biological predisposition toward fiction, Ibsen and Loveborg, imaginary friends, and how to come out of the closet as a political writer.

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LISTEN TO SEGMENTS
Introduction by Jonathan Ames (8:34)
Sam Lipsyte (15:13)
Salvador Plascencia (5:31)
Shirin Neshat (14:20)
Part 1: Panel Bios (4:24)
Part 2: Panel Discussion (21:05)
Part 3: Panel Discussion (9:05)
Part 4: Panel Discussion (16:09)

 


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