Up Next in the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series

November 7, 2008, 8 p.m.
The Undead: Zombies and Werewolves are back
Toby Barlow, Max Brooks, Grace Lee with Matthew Klam, Moderator

Held at the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater of the Washington DCJCC.

In film, literature, and music, the undead have resurfaced as characters populating our imagination. Beneath the gore, teeth, and fur, are the undead a timely metaphor for social unrest, a vehicle for political satire, a wild revitalization of horror with a comic edge? Three artists-two writers and a documentary filmmaker-take up these questions with moderator Matt Klam. For tickets and more info, click here.

November 21, 2008, 8 p.m.
An Evening with Russell Banks & Richard Russo

Join us for readings and discussion with two acknowledged masters of American literary fiction as they read from new novels that explore generously drawn fictional worlds both set in Upstate New York, richly populated and deeply felt. The author of 16 works of fiction, Russell Banks's most recent novel is The Reserve, a novel praised as "new and wonderful turf for this masterful storyteller." Two of his other novels, Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs is his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, and has been called "magnificent" and "the novel Russo was born to write." He is the author of four additional novels, including The Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool. For tickets and more info, click here.

December 5, 2008, 8 p.m.
PEN/Malamud Award Memorial Reading 1988–2008

This year's PEN/Malamud Award winners, Cynthia Ozick and Peter Ho Davies, read in a memorial celebration of the 1988-2008 anniversary of the award, established by the family of Bernard Malamud to honor excellence in the art of the short story. For a history of past award winners, click here. For tickets and more information, click here.