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The festival announced its full event lineup this week, and we're excited!
This year's festival honors Brooklyn-bred Jonathan Lethem.
Salman Rushdie will be reading from his new novel at powerHouse Books in DUMBO.
The New Inquiry and other online publications are hosting the first night of literary gatherings.
Whitney Houston's final film drew Salman Rushdie, Gabourey Sidibe and Olympic medal winners.
Author Salman Rushdie founded the PEN festival to celebrate international literature.
People from Marcus Samuelsson to Aldon James made news in Manhattan's neighborhoods in 2011.
The struggling St. Mark's Bookshop struck a deal with landlord Cooper Union this week.
The St. Mark's Bookshop has been seeking a rent reduction to save the struggling store.
A letter by author Salman Rushdie is among tens of thousands of petitions set to be delivered to the Cooper Union Tuesday asking the school to reduce the St. Mark's Bookshop's rent, organizers said.
The PEN World Voices Festival brings authors from all over the world to New York City.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov should be spared the death penalty.
The actress spotted the suspect outside her third-floor balcony, sources said.
A shortage of bilingual therapists has made the problem especially difficult in some districts.
The victim suffered a fractured skull base, multiple spinal fractures, bruised lungs and other injuries.
The break happened just after 4 a.m. on Pacific Street near Albany Avenue.
Officer Ryan Nash shot Sayfullo Saipov who killed eight people with a rented truck, officials said.
The new owners have no plans to change the properties, according to a realtor who brokered the deal.
The deadly attack left eight people dead and a dozen injured, officials said.
Five men from Argentina, a woman from Belgium, a West Village resident and a man from N.J. were killed.
The vote paves the way for developers to build a complex with retail space and 1,146 apartments.
The Queens County Bird Club is hoping to install two bird feeders in the park by the end of November.
Sayfullo Saipov was charged by federal prosecutors on Wednesday with aiding ISIS in a terror attack.
A new art gallery features the work of recovering addicts in East Harlem.
Catwalks, balconies, a secret staircase and elaborate ceiling panels were uncovered at the theater.
Preservation groups are writing letters — in crayon — to the library, which owns the home.