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The Mighty Pen
"The Power of the Pen: Does Writing Change Anything?" is the title of a reading by world-renowned authors during the PEN World Voices festival that starts Saturday. Three of the readers, Salman Rushdie, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Ha Jin, explore that question and offer their views on the interplay of politics and literature.
Lesson Plan 1
Ninfa Segarra former president of the Board of Education, and former deputy mayor under Rudolph Giuliani
- on Mayor Bloomberg's education plan
Lesson Plan 2
Jill Levy President of the Council of Supervisors & Administrators
- discusses the mayoral race and what the candidates are saying about education
» Council of Supervisors and Administration
Lesson Plan 3
Randi Weingarten President of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and chair of the Municipal Labor Committee
- discusses the state of the Teachers Union and schools in New York City
» United Federation of Teachers
After a Fashion
Anne Applebaum,
Editorial Columnist at The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
Gulag : A History
(Doubleday 2003),
- on the current "fashion" in drug approvals at the FDA
» Anne Applebaum column
The Mighty Pen
Ha Jin,
novelist and poet, PEN World Voices festival participant, professor of English at Boston University and National Book Award-winning author of
War Trash
(Pantheon, 2004),
and
Antonio Muñoz Molina,
Spanish novelist and journalist, PEN World Voices festival participant, Director of the Instituto Cervantes in New York and author of the award-winning novel,
Sepharad
(Harcourt, 2003),
and
Salman Rushdie,
President of PEN American Center, participant in the PEN World Voices festival, and award-winning author of the forthcoming
Shalimar the Clown : A Novel
(Random House, 2005),
- address the question "Does Writing Change Anything?"
» Ha Jin
» Antonio Muñoz Molina
» Salman Rushdie
» PEN World Voices festival
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