The PEN America World Voices Festival is the premier celebration of writing from the United States and around the world.

Schedule of Events:

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Up-Ending Narratives at The Preserve With his new work, You Dream of Empires, Álvaro Enrigue turns the historical novel upside down and inside-out, adding a dose of hallucinogens to the morning in 1519, when the conquistador Hernán Cortés enters Tenochititlan (present-day Mexico City) to meet Moctezuma. In his new novel, James, Percival Everett rewrites Mark Twain’s notorious novel to let us hear the enslaved Jim’s point of view, finally giving “one of the noblest characters in American literature a novel worthy of him.” Both of these retellings offer remarkable revelations; funny and horrifying meditations on history real and imagined; as well as characters we think we know—shown in a radically new light.

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