PEN: In Conversation: Mahi Binebine and Anderson Tepper
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City Listen in on a conversation with a titan of Moroccan letters. In an intimate dialogue, Binebine, the author of six novels, will talk about the value of Moroccan cultural heritage, identity, empowerment, and women. Under the High Patronage ...
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PEN: New Orleans
Where: The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St., New York City More than five years after Katrina, one of the greatest man-made disasters in America’s history, the country has moved on. New Orleans has not. While the city has fought with great passion and courage to recover, disturbing problems remain. How has New Orleans, a world ...
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PEN: Translator Rights and Translator Wrongs
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City PEN Translation Committee Chair Susan Bernofsky teams up with intellectual property attorney Erach Screwvala to discuss intellectual property issues in literary translations and their implications for both the business and the artistic sides ...
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PEN: From The Anxiety to The Anatomy of Influence: A Conversation with Harold Bloom
Where: New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, 5th Ave. at 42nd St., New York City On the closing day of the PEN World Voices Festival, Yale University’s Sterling Professor of the Humanities Harold Bloom will join Paul Holdengräber for a discussion LIVE from the NYPL. Now in his eighth decade, Bloom will ...
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PEN: Russia in Two Acts
Where: The Morgan Library & Museum, Lehrman Hall, 225 Madison Ave., New York City Watch a World Champion chess player, now journalist, unravel the complexities of Russia’s cultural and geopolitical landscape. In Part One of this event, Garry Kasparov will offer his personal spin on the state of contemporary Russian ...
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PEN: Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti
Where: New York Public Library, South Court Auditorium, 5th Ave. at 42nd St., New York City President of the venerable publishing house, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi goes head-to-head with the illustrious German-poet translator and artistic director of Germany’s acclaimed Berliner Festspiele, Joachim ...
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PEN: In Conversation: Abdellah Taïa and Dale Peck
Where: The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Sq., New York City Dale Peck, the controversial critic and daring author of queer novels such as Martin and John, interviews one of Morocco’s youngest and most talented novelists Abdellah Taїa (Le jour du roi). They’ll discuss identity, gender and ...
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