May 11, 2005

PEN World Voices can now be heard; Rushide reveals he's a Literary Saloon reader . . .

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An audio archive of events from the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, held in late April, is now available for free download on the PEN American Center’s website. The festival, which was covered by some national media, featured Margaret Atwood, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Salman Rushdie, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, among others. Rushdie, president of the PEN American Center, is quoted in a Publishers Weekly report by Charlotte Abbott as saying that much of the success of the conference is due to the buzz created by the “enormous amount of blogging” about the event.

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