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9/28/06: Campaign for Reader Privacy forum

• Protecting Privacy, Challenging Secrecy, and Standing Up for the First Amendment (1:18:16)

5/22/06: 2006 PEN Awards

• Literary Awards ceremony at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre (1:13:48)

5/17/06: PEN Conversation

• 2006 PEN/Nabokov Award winner Philip Roth talks with Ben Taylor (39:29)

4/18/06: Sibel Edmonds

• The 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award winner speaks at the PEN office (11:11)

12/5/05: Telling the (Whole) Story: Celebrating Writers of Color

• Introduction

• Esmeralda Santiago reads from Faith Adiele's Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

• Colin Channer reads from Raquel Cepeda's And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years

• Esmeralda Santiago reads from Lan Samantha Chang's Inheritance

• Colin Channer reads from Lolita Hernandez's Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant

• Esmeralda Santiago reads from Ishle Yi Park's The Temperature of This Water

• Panel Discussion

11/8/05: State of Emergency

• 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

5/10/05: Foreign Exchanges 5 with Art Spiegelman & Marjane Satrapi

• Introduction by Mike Roberts and Part 1: Panel Discussion
• Part 2: Panel Discussion
• Part 3: Panel Discussion
• Part 4: Panel Discussion
• Part 5: Q & A

8/4/04: State of Emergency

• Laurie Anderson reading David Hickey: "My Weimar" in Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy

• Paul Auster reading Henry David Thoreau: "Slavery in Massachusetts"

• Russell Banks reading Mark Twain: "The Person Sitting in Darkness"

• Don DeLillo reading Zbiegnew Herbert

• Ariel Dorfman reading Cervantes: Don Quixote (Spanish and English)

• Eve Ensler reading Nawal el Saadwi

• Jonathan Safran Foer reading from President Bush quotes

• Barbara Goldsmith reading Susan B. Anthony: statement after being sentenced for voting in 1872 election

• A. M. Homes reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Coney Island"

• Margo Jefferson reading Zora Neale Hurston: "Seeing the World as It Is" and James Baldwin: "The Devil Finds Work"

• Edward P. Jones reading Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun

• Walter Dean Myers reading W. E. B. DuBois: Editorial from The Crisis Magazine

• Francine Prose reading Zbiegnew Herbert: "Five Men"

• Salman Rushdie: Introduction & Conclusion

• Monique Truong reading Linda Le: Slander

7/24/06: Akbar Ganji

• Writing and Freedom of Expression in Iran

7/6/06: PEN Conversation

• Gregory Rabassa & Edith Grossman with Michael F. Moore

6/26/06: PEN Prison Writing Contest Winners

• Prison Writing Committee Members read from winning manuscripts on WBAI (52:24)

4/06: PEN World Voices Festival:
Faith & Reason

4/4/06: PEN Conversation

• Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen speaks with Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch

9/27/05: Jailing the Messenger

• Introduction by Michael Roberts & Part 1: Panel Discussion
• Part 2: Panel Discussion
• Part 3: Panel Discussion
• Part 4: Panel Discussion
• Part 5: Panel Discussion and Q & A

4/22/05: Conversation: Michael Ondaatje and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Part 1: Introduction by Peter Carey/Discussion (16:23)
• Part 2: Discussion (16:59)
• Part 3: Discussion (15:20)
• Part 4: Discussion (8:34)
• Part 4: Q & A (13:53)
• Part 5: Q & A (13:49)

4/22/05: Czeslaw Milosz and the Conscience of Literature

• Tomas Venclova (8:42)
• Adam Zagajewski (8:45)
• Eva Hoffman (8:24)
• Durs Grünbein (3:54)
• Robert Hass (4:56)
• Bei Dao (3:42)
• Breyten Breytenbach (2:52)
• Robert Faggen (11:14)
• Edward Hirsch (7:18)
• Azar Nafisi (12:06)
• Lawrence Weschler & Salman Rushdie (5:02)

4/20/05: A Believer Nighttime Event

• Introduction by Jonathan Ames (8:34)
• Sam Lipsyte (15:13)
• Salvador Plascencia (5:31)
• Shirin Neshat (14:20)
• Part 1: Panel Bios (4:24)
• Part 2: Panel Discussion (21:05)
• Part 3: Panel Discussion (9:05)
• Part 4: Panel Discussion (16:09)

4/19/05: Africa and the World: The Writer's Role

• Introduction and Breyten Breytenbach (14:35
• Elizabeth Alexander (13:02)
• Tsitsi Dangarembga (11:46)
• Achmat Dangor (7:48)
• Nuruddin Farah (8:44)
• Zakes Mda (14:51)
• Pedro Rosa Mendes (18:36)
• Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1:07)
• Uwe Timm (12:26)

4/19/05: Writers & Iraq

• Introduction by Robert Silvers followed by Mark Danner (14:36)
• Dunya Mikhail (7:01)
• Kanan Makiya 6:58)
• Pankaj Mishra
• Panel Discussion (16:48)
• Part 1: Q & A (13:25)
• Part 2: Q & A (15:18)
• Part 3: Q & A (15:20)

4/18/05: The Power of the Pen: Does Writing Change Anything?

• Margaret Atwood (8:35)
• Nuruddin Farah (6:55)
• Jonathan Franzen (7:19)
• Antonio Muñoz Molina (8:04)
• Salman Rushdie (7:55)

4/17/05: Literature & Power

• John Ralston Saul (7:46)
• Tomás Eloy Martínez (9:57)
• Oksana Zabuzhko (9:29)
• Shashi Tharoor (7:47)
• Francine Prose (6:27)
• Bernard-Henri Lévy (15:39)
• Panel Discussion (12:40)
• Part 1: Q & A (21:56)
• Part 2: Q & A (6:19)

4/17/05: Crossing Borders: Universal Themes in Children's Literature

• Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton (21:54)
• Cornelia Funke (9:56)
• Part 1: Q & A (13:53)
• Part 2: Q & A (2:11)

4/17/05: International Noir

• Introduction by Robert Polito (8:32)
• Rob Breckenridge reading from Idiots (7:27)
• Jacob Arjouni (6:08)
• Oni Lampley reading from OUT (10:17)
• Natsuo Kirino (14:18)
• Reading from Elmore Leonardo's Bicycle (8:27)
• Paco Ignacio Taibo (12:37)
• Rob Breckenridge reading from Dirty Snow (7:29)
• Luc Sante (8:26)
• Panel Discussion (7:11)
• Q&A (14:00)

4/16/05: Confronting the Worst: Writing & Catastrophe

• Part 1: Svetlana Alexievich (17:37)
• Part 2: Ryszard Kapuscinski (9:33)
• Part 3: Elena Poniatowska (11:54)
• Part 4: François Bizot (13:21)
• Part 5: Carolin Emcke (12:47)
• Part 6: Philip Gourevitch (11:59)
• Part 7: Panel Discussion (11:47)
• Part 8: Q & A (8:23)

4/16/05: Excerpts from Don Quixote at 400: A Tribute

• Introduction by Salman Rushdie (8:23)
• Laura Restrepo (13:53)
• Antonio Muñoz Molina (7:51)
• Margaret Atwood (8:15)