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Eve to Participate in PEN American Center Special Evening of Readings: STATE OF EMERGENCY: Unconventional Readings

07/20/2004

With: Laurie Anderson, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Michael Cunningham, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Ariel Dorfman, Eve Ensler, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barbara Goldsmith, A. M. Homes, A. E. Hotchner, Margo Jefferson, Edward P. Jones, Walter Dean Myers, Salman Rushdie, Monique Truong, Kurt Vonnegut & others.

Wednesday August 4, 2004, 7:00 p.m.
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue

FREE ADMISSION
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
For information call PEN at (212) 334-1660, ext. 107 or visit www.pen.org

On Wednesday, August 4, between the two major party conventions, PEN American Center presents a special evening of readings in support of free expression and America's core freedoms. A distinguished lineup of writers - including Laurie Anderson, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Michael Cunningham, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Ariel Dorfman, Eve Ensler, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barbara Goldsmith, A. M. Homes, A. E. Hotchner, Margo Jefferson, Edward P. Jones, Walter Dean Myers, Salman Rushdie, Monique Truong, Kurt Vonnegut, and others - will come together to read and raise awareness about grave threats to essential freedoms in the United States.

We hope you will be there to support free expression. Help us spread the word and encourage friends and associates to attend this important evening. Please forward this announcement on to relevant email lists and circulate as widely as possible.

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is by general admission and on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Please call PEN at 212/334-1660, ext. 107 for more information.

This program is co-sponsored by Cooper Union.