The MetaxuCafe is discussing and reporting on the PEN World Voices Festival 2008 with some good photos too. A couple notes from the top post: “[Salman] Rushdie is a Harry Potter fan.”

“Rushdie, Eco and Vargas Llosa now began batting The Count of Monte Cristo back and forth, debating whether or not such ‘bad writing’ as this can also be great writing. All three seemed to agree that bad writing could be great writing and that this often happens.”