Apr 24-29, 2007. Tickets on sale now.

April 29, 2007 6:30 pm to May 29, 2007 7:45 pm

The Great Hall
Cooper Union
7 East 7th St

When: Sunday, April 29
Where: The Great Hall at Cooper Union: 7 East 7th St.
What time: 6:30–7:45 p.m.

With Nadine Gordimer

Tickets: $15/$10 PEN Members
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April 28, 2007 / 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Bowery Ballroom,
6 Delancy St

When: Saturday, April 29
Where: The Bowery Ballroom: 6 Delancey St
What time: 8–10 p.m.

With Oliver Lake, Victoria Roberts, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Saul Williams, Huang Xiang, and surprise guests

Tickets: $25/$20 PEN Members
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April 25, 2007 / 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm

The Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street
(between 6th Avenue & Broadway)

When: Wednesday, April 25
Where: The Town Hall: 123 West 43rd St.
What time: 8 p.m.–9:30 p.m.

With Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef

Tickets: $15/$10 for PEN Members
Purchase tickets from The Town Hall, (212) 840-2824 or Ticketmaster, (212) 307-4100

April 24, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Cooper Union
7 East 7th St
@ 3rd Ave
New York, NY 10003
(at 3rd Ave)

A program of PEN World Voices International Literary Festival

Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.

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Featuring: Homero Aridjis, Billy Collins, Jonathan Franzen, Moses Isegawa, Pico Iyer, Laura Restrepo, Marilynne Robinson, Roxana Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Gary Shteyngart, and Colson Whitehead.

Perhaps the most urgent crisis we face on the planet is that of the planet itself. The effects of the destruction of the Earth’s natural systems reach across all boundaries of nationality, economics, religion, ethnicity, and language to touch each of us. In the opening event of the World Voices Festival, we’ll hear writers read from the work of other writers on the subject of the natural world. We’ll hear from other countries and other centuries; we’ll hear passionate, lyrical, and compelling voices raised in response to our gorgeous, mysterious, and imperiled earth.

March 27, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
6th @ 22nd
Chelsea
675 6th Avenue
New York, NY

Dork Whore is Iris Bahr’s new comedic memoir that chronicles her search for sex through Asia as a 20 year old pseudo-virgin. It is being published by Bloomsbury and due out in bookstores March ‘07. http://www.dorkwhore.com/

March 27, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Astor Place
Astor Place
4 Astor Place
New York, NY

The New YorkerIn 1993, when the author was twelve, rebel forces attacked his home town, in Sierra Leone, and he was separated from his parents. For months, he straggled through the war-torn countryside, starving and terrified, until he was taken under the wing of a Shakespeare-spouting lieutenant in the government army. Soon, he was being fed amphetamines and trained to shoot an AK-47 (“Ignore the safety pin, they said, it will only slow you down”). Beah’s memoir documents his transformation from a child into a hardened, brutally efficient soldier who high-fived his fellow-recruits after they slaughtered their enemies—often boys their own age—and who “felt no pity for anyone.” His honesty is exacting, and a testament to the ability of children “to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.”

March 19, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
82nd & Broadway
82nd & Broadway
2289 Broadway
New York, NY

John McQuaid - The Washington PostFlynn brings considerable experience to the issue, from a stint as a Coast Guard officer to his current perch at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he studies homeland security issues. His argument is straightforward and sensible: We need to build “resiliency” into the systems that make modern American life possible — transportation, communications, trade, basic infrastructure and government agencies. Our leaders lecture us that future disasters are inevitable, and they’re right. So we’d better start figuring out how to take a punch. By intelligently marshaling our resources before catastrophes occur, we can cushion almost any blow.

March 19, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
6th @ 22nd
Chelsea
675 6th Avenue
New York, NY

Joe Klein - The New York TimesBissell, who has published two previous books, brings more than just a “lifetime of thinking” about Vietnam to his task. He also brings a luminous prose style and, perhaps more important, a clear, fresh eye to events that many of us have allowed to slip into the infuriatingly painful past. He has devised a clever structure for the book, which slides back and forth between the Bissell family story and straightforward narrative accounts of the war that are rigorous and convincing.

March 21, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
82nd & Broadway
82nd & Broadway
2289 Broadway
New York, NY

In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love. Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The Post-Birthday World follows one woman’s future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.