Rushdie Talk on Censorship Wraps Up PEN Festival

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May 23, 201200:23:21Arts

The 2012 PEN World Voices Festival ended with a talk about censorship at the Cooper Union by novelist Salman Rushdie ( Midnight's Children , The Satanic Verses ). After the speech, the PEN festival founder had a conversa...

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