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September 18:Stop by the PEN booth [#93] at Brooklyn Book Festival October 12: PEN Literary Awards Ceremony November 1: PEN New Members/New Books Party |
PEN and The New School Present: An Evening with Liao Yiwu
With Liao Yiwu, Wen Huang, Salman Rushdie, and Philip Gourevitch Where: The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St. What time: 8 p.m. Tickets: $20/$15 for PEN Members and students with valid ID (free to New School Students with valid ID). Purchase tickets at ovationtix.com.  PEN American Center is honored to present poet, novelist, musician, and documentarian Liao Yiwu, one of China’s most exciting and most censored writers, in his first U.S. appearance in nearly two decades. This very special evening of music and words will include a reading from his forthcoming book and a performance of the xiao, or Chinese flute, which Mr. Liao learned to play while incarcerated. PEN World Voices Festival founder and chair Salman Rushdie will introduce the event and Mr. Liao will be joined by his translator Wen Huang and journalist Philip Gourevitch for an on-stage interview. [More] 
PEN Literary Pub Quiz at Brooklyn Book Festival
With team captains Christopher Beha of Harper’s, George Prochnik of Cabinet Magazine, James Yeh of Gigantic Magazine, Scott Lindenbaum and Andy Hunter of Electric Literature, translator Susan Bernofsky, Ben Greenman, Matthea Harvey, Amy Sohn, and more; hosted by Katie Halper. Where: St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn What time: 7-9 p.m. Free and open to the public. PEN is pleased to announce the return of our popular Literary Pub Quiz! This Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event gives you the chance to compete with (and against!) editors and writers from your favorite literary magazines, including Cabinet, Gigantic, Harper’s, and Electric Literature, as well as authors Matthea Harvey, Ben Greenman, and many more. Come early to reserve your spot on the team with the writer-captain who also knows where Hemingway was born. We’ll supply the paper and the pencils; you bring the literary smarts!
Also look for PEN at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday at Booth 93. [More]
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