Tayari's Blog: PEN Festival Here I Come!

Posted by TayariJones on May 2, 2008 08:56 AM
Filed under The Writing Life

Today I am headed over to the PEN World Voices Festival. Many thanks to Dr. Alexandrova who got me on my feet again. I am going to hop on the subway loaded down like an old lady on the Greyhound. I'll have my cough drops, my aspirin, some trail mix (so I won't be taking drugs on an empty stomach), water bottle... but I will be there!


Here is the agenda for today:

3:30-5pm: Writing The Story of Life in Fact and Fiction.
Writers who have used the same material for fiction and for autobiography are going to talk about the choices and process. This summer I read A.M. Homes' novel "In A Country of Mothers" and her memoir "The Mistress' Daughter". I was sometimes quite disoriented because there were whole passages in common between the two books. I am eager to hear her talk about it on the panel.

5:30-6:30: Leaving Home
Debut novelists from five different countries talk about writing from a country other than home. As a person whose debut was called Leaving Atlanta, you can see how I would be into this.

8pm: "Wristcutters"
This is a screening of a film based on Etgar Keret's short story "Kneller's Happy Campers."

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