April 30, 2011 | The Cooper Union | New York City

With Jonathan Franzen, Warren Macdonald, Jenny Allen, Edgar Oliver, and Elif Shafak; hosted by Salman Rushdie; directed by Catherine Burns and Sarah Austin Jenness of The Moth

Cosponsored by The Cooper Union and The Moth

World Voices Festival founder and chair Salman Rushdie hosts New York City's hottest literary ticket, The Moth, in a night of storytelling on the theme What Went Wrong. At this culminating moment of the Festival, five master storytellers share neverbeforeheard tales developed and shaped with The Moth's directors.

The Moth, hailed as "brilliant and quietly addictive" by The London Guardian, is a nonprofit storytelling organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. The Moth podcast is downloaded more than one million times a month, and The Moth Radio Hour, distributed by PRX, airs on two hundred radio stations nationwide.

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