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By J. D. Finch, on 12-09-2007 09:07

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From The Village Voice

"The shame of this is highlighted by the strengths of another literary festival: the three-year-old PEN World Voices festival, which displays just the intellectual curiosity theNew Yorker Festival lacks. One of PEN's fiction roundtables this year, for example, included Arthur Japin, Imma Monsó, and Michael Wallner. Who? Well, writers you might like to get to know. That compares with a New Yorker fiction lineup next month that pairs Jonathan Franzen and Ann Beattie, Lorrie Moore and Jeffrey Eugenides. It's not that these are artists you wouldn't like to see live; it's just that you already can do so-—for free-—at the city's various Barnes & Nobles.

It's time for the New Yorker Festival to embrace outsiders and runners-up (runners-up for the fiction section, in particular). Bring on the writers that we almost heard of, but didn't. The pages of the magazine, at its best, surprise us; it's time for the festival to do so too."

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