Summary: <p>One of the highlights of this year's <a href="http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096" target="_blank">PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature</a> was a talk between writers E.L. Doctorow, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis. <em>New York Times</em> chief film critic A.O. Scott asked the authors about America and its role in the global political culture at The Times Center.</p> <p>The Sunday before the talk, Doctorow (<em>Homer & Langley</em><em>, </em><em>Ragtime</em><em>)</em>, Atwood (<em>The Blind Assassin</em>, <em>Alias Grace</em>) and Amis (<em>Time's Arrow, The Rachel Papers</em>) had written essays for The Sunday Review section of <em>The Times</em> on the subject.</p>
