PEN World Parties and Panels
We've a few folks doing a bunch of events at the PEN World Voices Festival so, in addition to telling you about their panels (schedule below), we're also co-hosting a little shindig. Come one, come all, etc...
Please join Soft Skull Press, Transition Magazine, the German Book Office, and French Publishers Agency in celebrating PEN World Voices festival authors Dorothea Dieckmann and Alain Mabanckou, and their respective Soft Skull books Guantanamo and African Psycho.
Wednesday April 25, 9—11pm
Beauty Bar
241 E. 14th Street (between 2nd & 3rd)
Also, the schedule of events for Alain and Dorothea and Wayne Koestenbaum (who didn't have as far to travel so he doesn't get a party, sorry Wayne) during the Festival follows.
Conversation: Alain Mabanckou & Dany Laferrière, with Anderson Tepper — Wednesday, 4/25, 1pm
Location: La Maison Française of NYU, 16 Washington Mews
Participants: Dany Laferrière, Alain Mabanckou, Anderson Tepper
Town Hall Readings: Writing Home —Wednesday, 4/25, 8pm
Location: Town Hall, 123 West 43rd St.
Participants: Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef.
Multiple Passports: Writers on Homeland and Identity —Thursday, 4/26, 1pm
Location: Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College, 695 Park Ave.
Participants: Alain Mabanckou, Henrik Nordbrandt, Pia Tafdrup, Adriaan van Dis, with Ian Buruma.
Dirty Wars — Thursday, 4/26, 7pm
Location: Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St
Participants: Mark Danner, Dorothea Dieckmann, Arnon Grunberg, Rose Styron, and others.
Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers —Thursday, 4/26, 7.30pm
Location: President’s Room, Columbia University, Faculty House, 400 West 117th St.
Participants: Ma Jian, Heidi Julavits, Dany Laferrière, Alain Mabanckou, Marilynne Robinson; moderated by Margo Jefferson.
Mixing Art and Politics — Saturday, 4/28, 12pm
Location: Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th St.
Participants: Dorothea Dieckmann, Almudena Grandes, Janne Teller, Saul Williams, moderated by Sam Tanenhaus.
Sex and Danger — Sunday, 4/29, 4–5:30 p.m.
Location: New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum: 5th Ave. & 42nd St.
Participants: Tinling Choong, Camelia Entekhabifard, Dany Laferrière, Edmund White; moderated by Wayne Koestenbaum