The PEN World Voices Festival runs from April 27-May 3 in New York (mostly) and features authors from all over the world talking about books and ideas. And — surprise — there are several events featuring graphic novelists and the like, including an afternoon of three sessions. Several events are free, but you’ll need tickets for the GN afternoon. Here’s a rundown:
April 27 | Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Joshua Wolf Shenk
April 30, 2009 | Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Kathrin Röggla: Modern Day Salarymen
May 2, 2009 | Coraline, Sandman: Books and Imagination: A Conversation with Neil Gaiman
May 2, 2009 | Pictures + Words: The New Literature of Graphic Narrative With Kate Beaton, Robbi Behr, Emmanuel Guibert, Chad Parmenter, and Matthew Swanson (This event takes place in Chestertown, MD)
May 2, 2009 | Revolutionary Writers: Yoshihiro Tatsumi in Conversation with Adrian Tomine
Tatsumi and Tomine? We’re there!
For those who are fans of non-pictorial books, there are many other sessions of interest. Check out the entire schedule.
Emmanual Guibert really IS amazing. He’s at two different events at the same time, in two different states!
Just got my tickets to those three NY panels on the 2nd, as well as the Pen Cabaret later that night… Parker Posey! Lou Reed! James Franco!
The May 2nd event with Guibert, Parementer, and Beaton is actually on April 25th at The Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College, Chestertown, MD!
PEN tells me they’ll change the website to reflect this soon!