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PEN America Writers Threw Their Own Party
“Some of the people who have withdrawn are, for example, debut novelists. It’s quite a big sacrifice to turn it down — and yet they have.”
wearing a keffiyeh around their shoulders, only for them to peel off in the direction of Washington Square Park — the site, along with bits of New York University property around it, of near-constant student-led protests and encampments, the most recent of which had been cleared less than a week before. Over the course of two hours, as the audience watched from folding chairs, 18 authors and translators — and one musician, Huda Asfour, who sang and played the oud — got up to speak in front of a duo of carved stone angels and a verse from Matthew on the wall behind them. The translator Nicholas Glastonbury, who read a poem after participants performed works by Gazan writer Haya Abu Nasser and Palestinian American Fady Joudah, was even less equivocal.
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