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| 2005 State of Emergency: Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention & Extraordinary Rendition |
November 8, 2005 | Cooper Union's Great Hall | New York City
With Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Sandra Cisneros, Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Martín Espada, Philip Gourevitch, Jessica Hagedorn, Heidi Julavits, Nicole Krauss, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Grace Paley, Emma Reverter, Salman Rushdie, Martha Southgate, and Colson Whitehead.
PEN American Center's 2005 State of Emergency event offered a special evening of readings in opposition to United States policies on the treatment of detainees in this country and abroad. A stellar group of writers came together to read and bring national attention to abusive government policies including torture, arbitrary detention, and extraordinary rendition.
 LISTEN TO SEGMENTS
• Salman Rushdie: Introduction
• Edward Albee: On Federico Garcia Lorca
• Paul Auster: "Route" by George Oppen from Of Being Numerous
• Sandra Cisneros: "Los Nadies/The Nobodies" by Eduardo Galeano from Book of Embraces
• Don DeLillo: "Dreaming of Richard" by Jeanette Belmar, from the play Guantánamo
• Dave Eggers: From The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey From Torture to Truth by
Diana Ortiz
• Martín Espada: "Pastoral of Chile XI" by Raúl Zurita
• Philip Gourevitch: From "Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield,
Illinois, January 27, 1838" by Abraham Lincoln
• Jessica Hagedorn: From "Exhibit D," legal documents from a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay
• Heidi Julavits: "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby" from Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
• Nicole Krauss: From At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities by Jean Amery
• Rick Moody: From The Skin by Curzio Malaparte
• Walter Mosley: "Hope" by Ariel Dorfman
• Emma Reverter: "No One Is Alone" by Juan Goytisolo
• Martha Southgate: "The Colonel" by Carolyn Forché
• Colson Whitehead: From Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Salman Rushdie: From Dispatches by Michael Herr
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