In this video, Sofi Oksanen answers audience questions on writing, human trafficking and violence. On April 27, 2010, Oksanen visited City of Asylum Pittsburgh to give a reading with Christos Tsiolkas and Tommy Wieringa.
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The Iranian writer, lawyer, and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has first-hand experience dealing with threats to freedom of expression. She is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence.
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Christos Tsiolkas visited City of Asylum Pittsburgh on April 27, 2010. In this video, Tsiolkas talks about his process constructing characters, writing about sex, The Slap’s reception, and Australian slang.
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In this video recorded at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Tommy Wieringa talks about writing on adolescence, taboo subjects, and reader’s reception of his novel Joe Speedboat.
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On May 3rd South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin read at an event sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and PEN/America. Here is a video of her reading from her novel Please Look after Mom in its original Korean.
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Poet Nancy Krygowski reads the English translation of Please Look After Mom as part of a reading sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and PEN/America. The reading also featured authors Hervé Le Tellier and David Bezmozgis.
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In this video, alto saxophonist Darius Jones talks about composing outside of a traditional 20th century musical structure and fans downloading his songs illegally, and the physicality of the saxophone and human voice.
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