"What good is sitting alone in your room?": Okay, Not a Cabaret, but Upcoming Readings!

Don’t forget to send along your advice for incoming MFA students and anyone taking their first writing workshop:  lesliepietrzyk@gmail.com

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Here’s an eclectic, incomplete list of writing-related events that I’m especially hoping I can get to…some big names here and some personal favorites:

Arts Club of Washington

Meghan O’Rourke ~ September 18

Fall for the Book festival, George Mason University

Davy Rothbart ~ September 26

O.B. Hardison Poetry Series, Folger Shakespeare Library

Eduardo C. Corral ~ September 17

Mark Strand ~ November 19

Billy Collins ~ April 29

 (If you’re a big Billy Collins fan, note that you can get an invite to a private, fund-raising dinner where you can meet him in a smaller environment—and everything I’ve heard indicates that he’s VERY fun to hang out with!  For more info on that: tdavis@folger.edu

Lannan Reading Series, Georgetown University

Orhan Pamuk ~ October 26

Mark Strand ~ November 13

PEN/Faulkner Fiction Series, Folger Shakespeare Library

Jeffrey Eugenides ~ September 24

Chad Harbach & Karen Russell ~ February 5

Geraldine Brooks ~ March 28

Politics & Prose Bookstore

A.M. Homes ~ October 6

Joyce Johnson ~ October 11

E.J. Levy (my former writing group colleague!) ~ October 14

Sherman Alexie ~ October 17

Zadie Smith ~ October 18

Junot Diaz ~ October 22

 (whew...busy month!)