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SUMMARY:Who Belongs? Stories Against a Narrowing World
DESCRIPTION:PEN America World Voices Festival closing night event!\n\n\nWho Belongs? Stories Against a Narrowing World\nAll PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase. \nGlobally\, political and cultural forces are aligning to narrowly define national identities. Surging book bans\, the outlawing of languages\, the erasure of histories from official records\, and the censorship of words increasingly limit who belongs and delineate who is other. Literature subverts that.  \nFor the festival’s closing night event\, PEN America President Dinaw Mengestu will convene prominent international writers to discuss how literature champions a diversity of cultures and reflects the multiple heritages\, customs\, and traditions we all carry. Joining Mengestu in this vital conversation are Tash Aw (The South)\, Susan Choi (Flashlight)\, and Madeleine Thien (The Book of Records).  \nCART caption is provided at this event. Captioning is being provided\, in part\, by a grant from NYSCA/TDF TAP Plus. \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, more than140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40+ engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nJudson Memorial Church is an accessible venue. The back door (243 Thompshon St) has elevator access to the space. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 15th to request. \nPlease ask a Box Office Attendant or festival representative upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. \nFor further information on accessibility in this space\, or to make a request\, please contact publicprograms@pen.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/who-belongs-stories-against-a-narrowing-world/
LOCATION:Judson Memorial Church\, 55 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Laughing Through It: Dark Humor and the Novel
DESCRIPTION:A conversation on the craft of using humor to take on life’s messiest moments.\n\n\nLaughing Through It: Dark Humor and the Novel\nThis is a free event\, but registration is required. \nWriting a funny novel might be the hardest trick in fiction\, but these writers make it look easy. Join Katie Yee and Benedict Nguyễn for a discussion about writing novels that tackle painful and complicated topics—and are hilarious. In Maggie; or A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar\, Yee spins gold from heartbreak when a Chinese American woman’s husband leaves her for a white woman named Maggie. In Hot Girls with Balls\, Nguyễn serves up a hilarious setup—two trans women\, star-crossed lovers\, playing on competing sides of a professional men’s indoor volleyball league. \nModerated by writer and arts administrator Jared Jackson\, this discussion will explore the craft of writing comedy that stings and how humor can illuminate betrayal\, grief\, and the messiness of life. \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, more than 140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40+ engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nThis space is ADA compliant. A street level accessible entrance is located on 12th street. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 15th to request.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/laughing-through-it-dark-humor-and-the-novel/
LOCATION:The Church of the Village\, 201 West 13th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T140000
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SUMMARY:Protest Novels: Repression\, Dissent\, and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with three novelists whose books look at the risks and possibilities of protest\, and life under repressive governments.\n\n\nProtest Novels: Repression\, Dissent\, and Resistance\nThis is a free event\, but registration is required. \nWhat can novels tell us about the confrontation between freedom and autocracy? What does heroism look like in our daily lives—at home and in the streets—and how are acts of resistance remembered? Join us for a conversation with three authors whose books examine clashes\, from China to Hong Kong to Russia\, and their aftermath\, searching for answers to riddles of our politicized times: Ha Jin’s Looking for Tank Man\, Gigi L. Leung’s Everyday Movement (tr. Jennifer Feeley)\, and Svetlana Satchkova’s The Undead: A Novel of Modern Russia. \nModerated by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall\, author of A Protest History of the United States\, this discussion will surface the costs and necessities of dissent. \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, more than140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40 engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nThis an outdoor public space. For detailed information on accessibility in this space\, or to make a request\, please contact publicprograms@pen.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/protest-novels-repression-dissent-and-resistance/
LOCATION:The Festival Stage on Washington Square South (between Sullivan St & Thompson St)\, Washington Square Park\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dystopia Gets Personal: Laila Lalami & Megha Majumdar
DESCRIPTION:A conversation on how surveillance\, climate crisis\, and inequality shape our most intimate lives.\n\n\nDystopia Gets Personal: Laila Lalami & Megha Majumdar\nAll PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase. \nA woman is incarcerated indefinitely because an algorithm predicts she might be a threat. A woman is fleeing climate disaster only to have her passport stolen by a desperate thief trying to feed his family. \nIn Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel and Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief\, the line between dystopian fiction and reflections of our current reality is blurred. Tackling surveillance culture\, the algorithms absorbing our data\, climate catastrophe\, and global inequality\, these novels remind us that political and societal forces intimately shape our daily lives. \nModerated by PEN America Co-CEO Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf\, this discussion will look at the collision between the future and the present\, and between the personal and the political. \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, over 140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40+ engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nThis venue is ADA compliant. The space is accessible via elevator. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 16th to request. \nPlease ask a Box Office Attendant or festival representative upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. \nFor further information on accessibility in this space\, or to make a request\, please contact publicprograms@pen.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/dystopia-gets-personal-laila-lalami-megha-majumdar/
LOCATION:Strand Book Store\, 828 Broadway\, Third Floor\, Rare Books Room\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Narrating Palestine: Family\, History\, and Displacement
DESCRIPTION:Explore how Palestinian writers reclaim and preserve histories of dispossession\, memory\, and resistance.\n\n\nNarrating Palestine: Family\, History\, and Displacement\nThis is a free event\, but registration is required. \nWho gets to tell the story of Palestine? For decades\, Palestinian writers\, historians\, and journalists have worked to recover suppressed histories and share narratives of dispossession and exile. \nIn Tareq Baconi’s Fire in Every Direction\, he traces his family’s history of displacement\, from his grandmother fleeing Haifa in 1948 as Israeli militias seized the city\, to their departure from Lebanon during the civil war\, before they ultimately settled in Jordan. Ramzy Baroud’s Before the Flood reflects on Palestinian history and personal stories of his family and their village\, reclaiming Palestinian narratives from distorted portrayals. \nIn conversation with Zaina Arafat (You Exist Too Much)\, Baconi and Baroud will explore the ways Palestinian history is written and remembered\, from family memory and storytelling to political analysis and the fight against erasure.  \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, over 140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40 engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nJudson Memorial Church is an accessible venue. The back door (243 Thompson St) has elevator access to the space. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 15th to request.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/narrating-palestine-family-history-and-displacement/
LOCATION:Judson Memorial Church\, 55 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Techidemic with Tochi Onyebuchi\, Cory Doctorow\, and Alia Dastagir and Sarah Jeong
DESCRIPTION:Examine how life online has devolved and ask whether a better future online might still be possible.\n\n\nTechidemic\nAll PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase. \nOnce\, the internet and social media platforms promised connection and community. Today\, that promise has been replaced by toxicity\, tribalism\, racism\, and misogyny. \nIn this riveting discussion\, Tochi Onyebuchi\, Cory Doctorow\, and Alia Dastagir will examine how life online has devolved. In Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet\, Onyebuchi reflects on three decades online\, exploring the relationship between race and the internet. Dastagir’s To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person investigates the online abuse women face\, the mental health toll that it takes\, and how women resist. Doctorow’s Enshittification reveals how tech giants have intentionally degraded online public squares and raises solutions to save these diseased platforms. \nTogether with moderator and award-winning tech journalist Sarah Jeong\, they’ll unpack what the internet has become and consider whether a better future online is still possible. \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, over 140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in 40+ engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \nVisit https://pen.org/world-voices-festival/ for more information about the entire festival\, as well as PEN America. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nThis venue is ADA compliant. The space is accessible via elevator. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 16th to request. \nPlease ask a Box Office Attendant or festival representative upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. \nFor further information on accessibility in this space\, or to make a request\, please contact publicprograms@pen.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/techidemic/
LOCATION:Strand Book Store\, 828 Broadway\, Third Floor\, Rare Books Room\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T194500
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Mother Dearest: Understanding our Mothers
DESCRIPTION:A conversation will traverse three countries to explore the most fundamental relationship of all: mother and child.\n\n\nMother Dearest: Understanding our Mothers\nAll PEN World Voices Festival tickets are non-refundable. Please confirm the time and location of your event before finalizing your purchase. \nAs much as we are shaped by mothers\, they too are shaped by their times and social milieu. \nIn three new books\, Abdellah Taïa\, Gish Jen\, and Molly Jong-Fast grapple with their mothers and the complexity of those difficult and loving relationships. In Living in Your Light (tr. Emma Ramadan)\, Taïa follows three moments in the life of Malika\, a Moroccan countrywoman and fictionalized version of his mother\, from 1954 to 1999. In Bad Bad Girl\, Jen blends autofiction and memoir to trace her mother’s life from her birth in Shanghai in 1924 in an attempt to understand why her mother was so hard on her. Jong-Fast’s memoir How to Lose Your Mother follows a year in the author’s life as she navigates her mother’s dementia and looks back on her sometimes chaotic childhood as the daughter of a celebrity mother. \nModerated by Dalia Azim (Country of Origin)\, this conversation will traverse Morocco\, Shanghai\, and 1970s New York City to explore the most fundamental relationship of all: mother and child. \n\n\nThe 2026 PEN World Voices Festival is a celebration of world literature and free expression. The 2026 edition will be the 21st World Voices Festival. Over four days\, over 140 writers from over 40 countries will be featured in engaging talks\, panels\, readings\, and activations in New York City and greater Los Angeles. \n\n\nACCESSIBILITY:\nThis space is ADA compliant. A street level accessible entrance is located on 12th street. \nASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our Box Office team at publicprograms@pen.org by April 15th to request. \nPlease ask a Box Office Attendant or festival representative upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. \nFor further information on accessibility in this space\, or to make a request\, please contact publicprograms@pen.org
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/mother-dearest-understanding-our-mothers/
LOCATION:The Church of the Village\, 201 West 13th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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