Pen World Voices festival
My favourite festival in NYC starts April 25th.
Saturday, April 25
Pictures + Words: The New Literature of Graphic Narrative
2 p.m.: The Rose O’Neill Literary House, Maryland
Monday, April 27
Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Joshua Wolf Shenk
7:30 p.m.: The Prince Theater, Maryland
Meir Shalev: The State of Israeli Literature
8 p.m.: Columbia University's Altschul Auditorium
Tuesday, April 28
Resonances: Writers on the Great Works
1 p.m.: Baruch College
The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
7 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
A Thousand Deaths Plus One
7 p.m.: The Americas Society
Evolution/Revolution in European Arts and Letters
8 p.m.: State University at Albany
Wednesday, April 29
The Inspired Scientist: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children’s Books to Create a Lifelong Love of Reading
4:30 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes
Anagrama: Celebrating 40 Years of Independent Publishing in Spain
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Prison Deform
6 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity
6:30 p.m.: La Maison Française of NYU
Evolution/Revolution
8 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($20/$15: Smarttix)
Thursday, April 30
Personal Evolution, Social Revolution: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Jeffrey Sachs: Common Wealth
1 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
Global Voices
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Cod, Orange Groves, and Olives
3 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
Tendencies in Spanish Language Literature
4 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Kathrin Röggla: Modern Day Salarymen
4:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Language in New Forms: The Work of Andrey Platonov
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children’s Book Writer
6:30 p.m.: Scholastic Auditorium
Kafka in America
6:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Meir Shalev in Conversation with Daniel Menaker
7 p.m.: Center for Jewish History ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Collaborations/Elaborations: The Music of Daniel Felsenfeld
7 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
The New York Review of Books: The Economic Crisis and How to Deal with It
7:30 p.m.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ($25/$20: Smarttix)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog: Muriel Barbery in Conversation with Adam Gopnik
8 p.m.: Cantor Film Center ($10: Smarttix)
The Moth ®evolution: Stories of Change
7 p.m.: Galapagos Art Space ($30: Smarttix)
Diálogos Isleños: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Reinaldo Arenas and Blai Bonet
8 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
DEFIANCE: The Spirit of ’89
9 p.m.: Joe’s Pub ($15/$10: joespub.com)
Friday, May 1
Garden Readings
12:30 p.m.: Deutsches Haus at NYU
Macondo: Imaginary and Real
1 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Left/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen
1 p.m.: Scandinavia House
What’s Taboo?
3 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
This Critical Moment!
3 p.m.: Scandinavia House
Discovering Unbearable Truths
5 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Season of Migration to the North: The Work of Tayeb Salih
6 p.m.: Scandinavia House
Innocence and Guilt: Domenico Starnone in Conversation with Antonio Monda
6 p.m.: Instituto Italiano di Cultura
The Language of Fear: A PEN Journal Event
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Hall
On the Edge: Writing in Post-Reunified Germany
6 p.m.: Deutsches Haus
Four/Négy
6:30 p.m.: Hungarian Cultural Center
Poetry Reading
7 p.m.: Bowery Poetry Club ($10/$5: Bowery Poetry Club)
Readings from Around the Globe
7:30 p.m.: 92nd St Y ($20/$15: Smarttix)
Armin Petras: We Are Camera
8 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
The Translation Slam
9 p.m.: Bowery Poetry Club ($10/$5: Bowery Poetry Club)
Saturday, May 2
Tribute to Harold Pinter
10 a.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
Coraline, Sandman: Books and Imagination: A Conversation with Neil Gaiman
1 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($10/$8: Smarttix)
Mark Z. Danielewski and Rick Moody in Conversation
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
1 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Where Truth Lies: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
New European Poets
2 p.m.: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
Jazz: The Revolution of Beat
2 p.m.: Galapagos Art Space
Writers Who Are Translators
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling
2:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($10/$8: Smarttix)
Enrique Vila-Matas & Paul Auster in Conversation
2:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Frankétienne: Hatian Identity
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Péter Nádas in Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn
3 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Contested Territory
4 p.m.: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
Revolutionary Writers: Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine
4:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($10/$8: Smarttix)
East–West Storytelling
4:30 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
On Translation
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Krik? Krak!
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
The PEN Cabaret
7:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($30/$25: Ticketmaster)
Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda
8 p.m.: Baryshnikov Arts Center
Sunday, May 3
The Pan-European Picnic Redux
1 p.m.: Museum of Modern Art
David Grossman and Leonard Lopate in Conversation
1 p.m.: Museum of Jewish Heritage ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Faith & Fiction
1 p.m.: powerHouse Arena
Richard Ford in Conversation with Nam Le
2 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum ($15/$10: Smarttix)
The Secret Scripture: Sebastian Barry in Conversation with Roxanne Coady
3 p.m.: powerHouse Arena
Is Nonfiction Literature?
3 p.m.: Museum of Jewish Heritage ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Henry Hudson at 400 Years: Amsterdam and New York City
4 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Evolution
4:30 p.m.: PowerHouse Arena
The Fourth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi
6:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Monday, May 4
See Under: Love. David Grossman on Bruno Schulz
8 p.m.: 92nd Street Y ($19/$10:
Saturday, April 25
Pictures + Words: The New Literature of Graphic Narrative
2 p.m.: The Rose O’Neill Literary House, Maryland
Monday, April 27
Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Joshua Wolf Shenk
7:30 p.m.: The Prince Theater, Maryland
Meir Shalev: The State of Israeli Literature
8 p.m.: Columbia University's Altschul Auditorium
Tuesday, April 28
Resonances: Writers on the Great Works
1 p.m.: Baruch College
The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
7 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
A Thousand Deaths Plus One
7 p.m.: The Americas Society
Evolution/Revolution in European Arts and Letters
8 p.m.: State University at Albany
Wednesday, April 29
The Inspired Scientist: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children’s Books to Create a Lifelong Love of Reading
4:30 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes
Anagrama: Celebrating 40 Years of Independent Publishing in Spain
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Prison Deform
6 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
Roland Barthes and the Invention of Modernity
6:30 p.m.: La Maison Française of NYU
Evolution/Revolution
8 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($20/$15: Smarttix)
Thursday, April 30
Personal Evolution, Social Revolution: A Program for High School Students
10 a.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Jeffrey Sachs: Common Wealth
1 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
Global Voices
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Cod, Orange Groves, and Olives
3 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
Tendencies in Spanish Language Literature
4 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Kathrin Röggla: Modern Day Salarymen
4:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Language in New Forms: The Work of Andrey Platonov
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling
6 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Leaps and Bounds, Fits and Starts: The Evolution of a Children’s Book Writer
6:30 p.m.: Scholastic Auditorium
Kafka in America
6:30 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Meir Shalev in Conversation with Daniel Menaker
7 p.m.: Center for Jewish History ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Collaborations/Elaborations: The Music of Daniel Felsenfeld
7 p.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
The New York Review of Books: The Economic Crisis and How to Deal with It
7:30 p.m.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ($25/$20: Smarttix)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog: Muriel Barbery in Conversation with Adam Gopnik
8 p.m.: Cantor Film Center ($10: Smarttix)
The Moth ®evolution: Stories of Change
7 p.m.: Galapagos Art Space ($30: Smarttix)
Diálogos Isleños: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Reinaldo Arenas and Blai Bonet
8 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
DEFIANCE: The Spirit of ’89
9 p.m.: Joe’s Pub ($15/$10: joespub.com)
Friday, May 1
Garden Readings
12:30 p.m.: Deutsches Haus at NYU
Macondo: Imaginary and Real
1 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
1 p.m.: Instituto Cervantes New York
Left/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen
1 p.m.: Scandinavia House
What’s Taboo?
3 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
This Critical Moment!
3 p.m.: Scandinavia House
Discovering Unbearable Truths
5 p.m.: Austrian Cultural Forum
Season of Migration to the North: The Work of Tayeb Salih
6 p.m.: Scandinavia House
Innocence and Guilt: Domenico Starnone in Conversation with Antonio Monda
6 p.m.: Instituto Italiano di Cultura
The Language of Fear: A PEN Journal Event
6 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Hall
On the Edge: Writing in Post-Reunified Germany
6 p.m.: Deutsches Haus
Four/Négy
6:30 p.m.: Hungarian Cultural Center
Poetry Reading
7 p.m.: Bowery Poetry Club ($10/$5: Bowery Poetry Club)
Readings from Around the Globe
7:30 p.m.: 92nd St Y ($20/$15: Smarttix)
Armin Petras: We Are Camera
8 p.m.: CUNY Segal Theater
The Translation Slam
9 p.m.: Bowery Poetry Club ($10/$5: Bowery Poetry Club)
Saturday, May 2
Tribute to Harold Pinter
10 a.m.: CUNY Proshansky Auditorium
Coraline, Sandman: Books and Imagination: A Conversation with Neil Gaiman
1 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($10/$8: Smarttix)
Mark Z. Danielewski and Rick Moody in Conversation
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
1 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Writing and Reading Multilingual Haiti
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Where Truth Lies: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction
1 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
New European Poets
2 p.m.: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
Jazz: The Revolution of Beat
2 p.m.: Galapagos Art Space
Writers Who Are Translators
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
1,000 Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling
2:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($10/$8: Smarttix)
Enrique Vila-Matas & Paul Auster in Conversation
2:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Frankétienne: Hatian Identity
3 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Péter Nádas in Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn
3 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
Contested Territory
4 p.m.: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
Revolutionary Writers: Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine
4:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($10/$8: Smarttix)
East–West Storytelling
4:30 p.m.: CUNY Elebash Recital Hall
On Translation
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
Krik? Krak!
5 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française
The PEN Cabaret
7:30 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($30/$25: Ticketmaster)
Death in Spring and The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda
8 p.m.: Baryshnikov Arts Center
Sunday, May 3
The Pan-European Picnic Redux
1 p.m.: Museum of Modern Art
David Grossman and Leonard Lopate in Conversation
1 p.m.: Museum of Jewish Heritage ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Faith & Fiction
1 p.m.: powerHouse Arena
Richard Ford in Conversation with Nam Le
2 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum ($15/$10: Smarttix)
The Secret Scripture: Sebastian Barry in Conversation with Roxanne Coady
3 p.m.: powerHouse Arena
Is Nonfiction Literature?
3 p.m.: Museum of Jewish Heritage ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Henry Hudson at 400 Years: Amsterdam and New York City
4 p.m.: The Morgan Library & Museum ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Evolution
4:30 p.m.: PowerHouse Arena
The Fourth Annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi
6:30 p.m.: The Great Hall at Cooper Union ($15/$10: Smarttix)
Monday, May 4
See Under: Love. David Grossman on Bruno Schulz
8 p.m.: 92nd Street Y ($19/$10:
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