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.

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 Ta

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 which t

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 of discussion

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 a graduate

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

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 Tal

  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

Episode 24 of the podcast features the 2013 PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony and Memorial Reading featuring the 2013 recipient of the award, author George Saunders.

Episode 23 features a reading we called "Blood Lines: The Literature of War," a reading by Philip Caputo & Kevin Powers in conversation with Elliot Ackerman. Philip Caputo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of many works of fiction and nonf