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Prague Writers’ Festival • 1 June 2008
inside, outside, both?
highlights
— Martin Belk
Natalia Gorbanevskaya receives the Roots in Time: The Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression
the conversation, “1968” notes:
“…it occurred to me that the inner and the outer could not be separated except by doing great damage to the truth”
Paul Auster reads a paragraph from […]
These photographs, taken in February 2004, document the Northern Irish city of Derry-Londonderry, which, after decades of sectarian violence (known as “the Troubles”), has achieved peace. The first glimmer of peace came on 10 April, 1998, when the main political parties on both sides of the divide signed the landmark “Good Friday Agreement”.
That accord called […]
Two years on from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, New Orleans is still being battered. The city known for its combination of virtue and vice, is being swept by hostile forces —big corporations want to sanitize and package it as The Big Easy Experience. Readers from Scotland to Darfur can relate to clearances: the greater […]
A run through Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens,
Manhattan and the Bronx
On November 4, 2007, still drowsy from too little sleep, we quietly gathered at Park Avenue and 32nd Street in Manhattan just before dawn. Our buses sat idling as we runners climbed on board for the first leg of what we hoped would be a […]
Monday, 30 July 2007: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the sixth anniversary of 9/11 would not be held in the pit at Ground Zero, but instead at the nearby concrete Zuccotti Park. The reason: “safety concerns”, now that construction is underway. After a public outcry from the victims’ families, threats of a […]
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