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Events
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- Javier Marías & Paul Auster: A...
92nd Street Y, Unterberg Poetry Center
Monday, November 30 at 8:00pm - Crossing Over: The 2009 PEN Be...
Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 C...
Wednesday, December 2 at 7:00pm - Who Will Speak for the Child: ...
NYU Law School, Tishman Auditorium
Monday, December 7 at 6:30pm
PEN American Center
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PEN American Center Watch George Saunders read the statement of German citizen Khaled El-Masrim, an innocent victim of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program
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George Saunders reads the statement of German citizen Khaled El-Masrim, an innocent victim of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, as part of the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror".
PEN American Center Listen to Sean Wilsey read a diary entry by Dennis Forrest, a prisoner in the Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, Texas.
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Sean Wilsey reads a diary entry by Dennis Forrest, a prisoner in the Ramsey Unit in Rosharon, Texas, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. Read the entry below.
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In 1989, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a document that would ensure the legal rights and protection of children. The United States
and Somalia are the only two countries that failed to ratify this document.
As the 20th anniversary of its UN adoption p...asses, please join us as writers and lawyers come together to discuss human rights for
children and the importance of safeguards to ensure their safety.
What role can lawyers and policymakers play to protect the rights of children? How can writers and the arts contribute to ensuring that we safeguard the rights of our most vulnerable and mort
valuable citizens?
FREE with reception following the event
with Deborah Ellis, Susan Kuklin, Walter Dean Myers and others
Time:6:30PM Monday, December 7th
Location:NYU Law School, Tishman Auditorium
PEN American Center Listen to Mary Gaitskill read Gail Leonard's “Kitchen Workers,” second place winner for fiction in PEN's 2007 Prison Writing Contest
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Mary Gaitskill reads Gail Leonard's “Kitchen Workers,” second place winner for fiction in PEN's 2007 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. Read the story below.
PEN American Center Read and listen to "Realms of Possibility", a public conversation with Philip Gourevitch, Norbert Gstrein and Colum McCann.
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This transcript was adapted from Is Nonfiction Literature, a public conversation held at the 2009 PENWorld Voices Festival of International Literature. You can read an extended version of this transcript in PEN America 11: Make Believe.
PEN American Center Watch best-selling author and acclaimed playwright Eve Ensler read from a speech by George W. Bush and visit pen.org to read the manuscript!
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Eve Ensler, best-selling author and acclaimed playwright, reads from a speech by George W. Bush commemorating the United Nations Day in Support of Victims of Torture, as part of the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror".
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PEN American Center Read "Pistachio", "Down", and "My Fat Uncle" by Rivka Galchen, published in PEN America 11: Make Believe
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"Pistacio", "Down", and "My Fat Uncle," is new fiction by Rivka Galchen. It appears in PEN America 11: Make Believe.
PEN American Center Listen to Patricia Smith reading Diane Hamill Metzger’s “Panopticon,” winner of an honorable mention for poetry in PEN's 2005 Prison Writing Contest
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Patricia Smith reads Diane Hamill Metzger’s “Panopticon,” winner of an honorable mention for poetry in PEN's 2005 Prison Writing Contest, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. Read the poem below.
PEN American Center Watch David Cole and Art Spiegelman read from legal documents concerning the interrogation of Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah
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David Cole reads an excerpt from a legal memo signed by Jay Bybee relating to the proposed interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, while Art Spiegelman reads excerpts from detainee Abu Zubaydah's first-hand account ...
PEN American Center Listen to Paul Auster read poems by Liu Xiaobo, recipient of the 2009 PEN/ Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award
PEN American Center - Liu Xiaobo: One Letter is Enough, Longing to Escape, A Small Rat in Prison, an
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"One Letter is Enough," "Longing to Escape,""A Small Rat in Prison," and "Daybreak" are new poems from Liu Xiaobo, who received the 2009 PEN/ Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. They appear in PEN America 11:Make Believe.
PEN American Center Watch Don Delillo read from a CIA memo and visit pen.org to read the manuscript!
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Don Delillo reads an excerpt from a memo prepared by the CIA for the Justice Department concerning the agency's detention, interrogation, and rendition programs, as part of the 2009 PEN event Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror".
PEN American Center Check out this great article about PEN's Prison Writing Program! There is still time to buy tickets to Monday night's event with Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, Lemon Andersen and others.
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Benefit Preview: A PEN America Program Teaches Writing to Prisoners - Out and About
PEN American Center
PEN Members and friends will read the award-winning work from PEN’s Prison Writing Program. Breakout: Voices from Inside, the Program’s second annual benefit reading and reception, will feature readings by Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, John Turturro, Patricia Smith, Jamal Joseph, Lemon Andersen, and others. As an inst...allment of WNYC’s signature series “The NEXT New York Conversation,” this event will be broadcast and live-streamed, allowing incarcerated men and women with radio and/or internet access to listen to the event and join our audience.
Please visit www.pen.org for more details and to purchase a ticket!
COLLABORATOR TICKET covers the expenses of one-on-one mentoring services between a PEN member and an incarcerated man or woman for one year. This premier ticket includes the best views and a reception following the program.
FRIEND TICKET covers the postage and printing costs to provide eight incarcerated men and women with a free copy of PEN’s Handbook for Writers in Prison. This ticket includes a reception following the program.
PEN Prison Writing Program Benefit Reading
Time:7:00PM Monday, November 9th
Location:WNYC's Greene Space: 44 Charlton Street (at Varick)
