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Home > 4/27/06

An Evening Without...
An Evening Without...

April 27, 2006 | Bowery Poetry Club | NYC

Featuring readings from the work of writers who have been barred from the United States:
 
With Anthony Romero, Martin Amis, Russell Banks, Liev Schreiber, Barbara Goldsmith, Salman Rushdie, Gioconda Belli, Padma Lakshmi, Naomi Shihab Nye, Debra Winger, Eloy Urroz and Todd Solondz.

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Introduction by Larry Siems; Anthony Romero reads Tariq Ramadan
Martin Amis reads "Graham Greene" from Visiting Mrs. Nabokov
Russell Banks reads Our Man in Heaven by Graham Greene
Liev Schreiber reads Dario Fo's prologue to Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman
Barbara Goldsmith reads My Discovery of America by Farley Mowat
Salman Rushdie reads poems by Czeslaw Milosz
Gioconda Belli reads Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Lecture
Padma Lakshmi reads In Pursuit of English by Dorris Lessing
Naomi Shihab Nye reads Mahmoud Darwish
Debra Winger reads Pablo Neruda
Eloy Urroz reads from Where the Air is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
Todd Solondz reads Nelson Mandela's 1962 court address


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