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.

LISTEN
• Entire event

LISTEN TO SEGMENTS
• 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