salman rushdie and mircea cartarescu regal you mortals

mircea cartarescu, major romanian writer, was in new york for pen international voices festival, reading at 'written on water', its opening night.

you'll hear salman rushdie's address, then mircea cartarescu reading one of his poems about elated adolescent love, natalie wood being his celebrity sweetheart, then again salman rushdie reading from his book, 'the enchantress of florence'. surprisingly he's quite ponderous, but hey, they wanted to kill him back home, so he's famous, the fashion model divorced him, so here he goes.