Pressed for Time: The PEN Festival New European Fiction

May 2, Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St. (betw. 9th & 10th Aves.), 212-414-5994; 1:30; $12.50. The 2009 National Book Award winner Let The Great World Spin by Irish writer Colum McCann contains an epigraph by Bosnian-American Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project; thus entangled is the world of New European fiction. This evening PEN brings Messrs. McCann and Hemon, as well as Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Valter Hugo Mae and Naja Marie Aidt, to show us Ameerkan writers how do to fiction right. Bottom Line: A panoply of accents; a surfeit of talents; a couple of green cards!