As we've mentioned previously, we're going to take a pass on next week's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and spend our week in New York covering the much more exciting PEN World Voices events. In case you're wondering, here's a list of the events we plan to attend and post about for you throughout the week (a few of these are tentative):
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
History and the Truth of Fiction: With Arthur Japin, Laila Lalami, Imma Monsó, Michael Wallner; moderated by Colum McCann
Postcolonial Writing in a Globalized World: Amitava Kumar & Ilija Trojanow
Town Hall Readings - Writing Home: With Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Neil Gaiman, Nadine Gordimer, Alain Mabanckou, Steve Martin, Salman Rushdie, Pia Tafdrup, Tatyana Tolstaya, Saadi Youssef
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
Making it New - Retranslating Great Literature: With Mary Ann Caws, Edith Grossman, Charles Martin, Mark Polizzotti; moderated by Michael Scammell
Pico Iyer in Conversation with Hal Wake.
György Konrád in Conversation - Highly, highly recommended.
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
Gritty Realism: With Daniel Alarcón, Guillermo Arriaga, Jorge Franco, Patrícia Melo; moderated by Margo Jefferson
Imaginary Geographies: With Daniel Alarcón, Arthur Japin, Tatyana Tolstaya; moderated by Deborah Treisman
Conversation: Per Petterson & Marilynne Robinson, with Radhika Jones
Conversation: Kiran Desai & Vikram Chandra, with Rachel Donadio
Conversation: Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng
SATURDAY, APRIL 28
Mixing Art and Politics: With Dorothea Dieckmann, Almudena Grandes, Janne Teller, Saul Williams; moderated by Sam Tanenhaus
Conversation: Tatyana Tolstaya & David Remnick
What's So Funny? Humor out of Context: With Guillermo Arriaga, Arnon Grunberg, Ma Jian, and others; moderated by Victoria Roberts
A Believer Nighttime Event: With Niccolò Ammaniti, John Hodgman, Uzodinma Iweala, Miranda July, Yasmina Khadra; and Eric Bogosian
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
A Tribute to Ryszard Kapuscinski: Breyten Breytenbach, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Carolin Emcke, Philip Gourevitch, Adam Michnik, Salman Rushdie, Lawrence Weschler
What Makes a Home? With Alain de Botton, Margriet de Moor, Carlos María Domínguez, Lee Stringer; moderated by Caro Llewellyn
And if we didn't have a 9 p.m. flight to catch for L.A., there's no way we'd miss David Grossman and Nadine Gordimer. But we can't do it all. So watch this space next week for posts, updates, photos, clips and general impressions as some the greatest literary minds in the world converge upon New York.
Regarding Konrad, do you read Hungarian?
Posted by: ImpeachChurchill | April 20, 2007 at 01:50 PM
Sadly, I do not. I speak it reasonably well but it's a tough language to read.
Posted by: TEV | April 20, 2007 at 01:53 PM