Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie and Mario Vargas Llosa at PEN World Voices
“You’ll notice an empty chair has been placed next to the podium on stage. This is to symbolize those writers who could not be here today due to political oppression.”
Thus intoned Leonard Lopate at New York City’s uptown 92nd Street Y, introducing a major PEN World Voices event featuring … Read the rest