Episode 34 brings you the 26th anniversary of the PEN/Faulkner Gala, which was held on October 6th, 2014. Continue reading →

Episode 33 features readings from PEN/Faulkner’s Summer Supper and Book Club, which met weekly for seven weeks at the Hill Center in the summer of 2014. We discussed books, poems, and stories by authors Susan Richards Shreve (Plum and Jaggers), Danielle Evans (Before You … Continue reading →

Episode 32 features the 34th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony & Reading, which was held at the Folger Shakespeare Library here in Washington, DC on May 10th, 2014. Continue reading →

Episode 31 of the podcast brings you a reading by New Yorker Staff Writer and author Rebecca Mead discussing her book My Life in Middlemarch and engaging in a conversation about the book with the Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin and the New Yorker’s Margaret Talbot. Continue reading →

Episode 30 features an event we called “Two Lives in Language: Amy Tan & Deborah Tannen in Conversation.” The bestselling authors and longtime friends read from their work, discussed their relationship to the written word, and explored the ways in … Continue reading →

Episode 29 features our April 10th event: The Heart of Things Human: An Evening with Richard Ford. The author was joined onstage at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, DC by the Washington Post‘s Ron Charles for an evening … Continue reading →

Episode 28 features a reading by Phil Klay, author of the story collection Redeployment, in conversation with novelist Jennifer Vanderbes, which took place at Hill Center at Old Naval Hospital in Washington, DC on March 14, 2014. Phil Klay is … Continue reading →

Episode 27 features our Feb. 24th, 2014 reading “Survival Instincts: First-time Novelists on the Ties That Bind” featuring first-time novelists Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres. They were joined onstage at the Folger Shakespeare Library by fellow first-time novelist Elliott Holt, … Continue reading →

Episode 26 features our Feb. 4th, 2014 reading: “Whose Life Is It, Anyway? The Literary Biographer’s Craft,” featuring readings by Blake Bailey, Ruth Franklin, and D.T. Max, who were led in conversation by author and New Yorker Staff Writer Margaret … Continue reading →

Episode 25 brings you an installment of the Hill Center PEN/Faulkner literary reading series that took place on January 29th, 2014. This collaboratively produced reading series takes place at Hill Center at Old Naval Hospital in Washington’s Capitol Hill … Continue reading →