This program features Irish novelist, journalist and playwright Colm Tóibín and Nigerian novelist and poet Chris Abani. Each writer reads from his work and a conversation between the two follows. The program was produced by BOMB Magazine at the KGB Bar in New York City on April 28, 2006 as part of the PEN American Center's PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature. Paul Morris, Director of Special Projects for Bomb, and Betsy Sussler, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, introduce the program.

Chris Abani was born in Afikpo, Nigeria in 1966. Abani's fiction includes The Virgin of Flames, GraceLand, Masters of the Board, and Becoming Abigail. His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water, Dog Woman, Daphne's Lot, and Kalakuta Republic. He lives and teaches in California.

Born in Ireland in 1955, Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is winner of the Los Angeles Novel of the Year and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France. His nonfiction includes The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994).