High Literary Concentration

One of the great things about New York is that it is relatively easy to get to hear internationally famous people. Tonight at the 'Town Hall' theater, as part of the PEN World Voices literature festival in New York, I saw on one stage in quick succession Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje (English Patient), Annie Proux (Brokeback Mountain), Ian McEwan and South Africa's own Rian Malaan. Tomorrow, Zimbabwe's Chenjerai Hove is taking part in a reading for the same festival.