Events - May, 3, 2012

Writer Hugo Hamilton Reads

PEN World Voices Festival comes to the NYU with a reading by Dublin-born journalist, novelist, memoirist, and short story writer Hugo Hamilton (The Speckled People,...

Books

Margaret Atwood on the Writers' Mind and the Digital Otherworld

What does it mean to write with the Web? How does our constant access to information and ideas affect the landscape of imagination? What are...

Books

Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules

What shapes a novel beyond its beginning, middle and end? Does structure trigger narrative? Author of 2011’s genre-defying, A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer...

Books

Conversation: Hugo Hamilton and Fernando Savater

PEN World Voices Festival comes to the NYU with a reading by Dublin-born journalist, novelist, memoirist, and short story writer Hugo Hamilton (The Speckled People,...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Politics and Power: Elections 2012

Every presidential campaign is a fight for America’s future and the 2012 Election promises to be just as dramatic, contentious and emotional as we have come...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Madeleine Albright

In her new and most personal book, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 (Harper; April 24, 2012), Madeleine Albright looks at...

Food & Drink

Adventures in the Global Kitchen - Tequila and Chilies

Learn about the cultural history of tequila and chilies withJuan Carlos Aguirre from Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to celebrating Mexican...

Books

Book Reading: DOH-BREE VEH-CHERR

Colombian Czech writer, Eduard Bechara Navratilova, will be doing a reading of Poems to Prague in English and Spanish, from his book Poems to a...

Books

PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL: Panel Discussion | Fame and the Writer

This year marks the 8th edition of the PEN World Voices of International Literature Festival. Returning every year since 2004, this major festival has established...