THE PEN CABARET

Join PEN World Voices for its much-celebrated, always-memorable annual cabaret: an evening of music, literature, writers, and performers unlike any other in the city. This year features rock legend Lou Reed and multimedia guru Laurie Anderson, along with an adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s New York piece in State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America with Parker Posey, James Franco, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Hirsch and Carrie Brownstein. Plus readings by novelist Walter Mosley, Irish poet Nick Laird, author Horacio Castellanos Moya, and actor David Conrad, as well as wizard of literary pastiche Mark Z. Danielewski; and a performance by poetry heavy hitters Sekou (Tha Misfit) and Steve Connell.