DATE | October 29, 2018 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION | Penn Social, 801 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
Dan Chaon, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Brian Evenson joined us for a night filled with horror and incredible literature, reading from their work and engaging in conversation about what horror fiction as a genre says about the very real horrors we face on a daily basis. This evening was moderated by bestselling and award-winning author, Elizabeth Hand.
Literary Conversations are PEN/Faulkner’s regular public programming events, which are designed to capture the most significant literary and societal conversations of the moment. Unlike other reading events, Literary Conversations are moderated discussions embedded...
Though James Hannaham is an award winning author, he is also a performer and visual artist. His novel Delicious Foods was the winner of the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction as well as the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Hannaham’s novel follows three unforgettable...
ZZ Packer was recognized as a talented writer at the early age of 19 for her first significant publication “Sometimes You Get Lucky” in Seventeen magazine. Another of Packer’s short stories, featured in the Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker, became a title story...
David Bradley’s novel The Chaneysville Incident won the 1982 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Academy Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The novel was inspired by the discovery of the graves of runaway slaves on a farm near...
Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's second novel Ms. Hempel Chronicles, a 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist, follows the life of a seventh grade teacher as she grapples with being new to teaching, being new to the school and being newly engaged. Her first novel...
Tickets and Sponsorships Now Available! We cordially invite you to attend the PEN/Faulkner Gala on Monday, September 24, 2018. This year marks the 30th anniversary of this special event, a unique evening in Washington, DC, that celebrates important voices in...
Pride Month is drawing to a close, but it doesn’t have to be June to read, enjoy, and celebrate literary works by LGBTQ+ authors! Here’s a list of some award-winning contemporary books by LGBTQ+ writers to drop in your checkout bin. Her Body and Other Parties (2017)...
We are pleased to announce that the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner is Joan Silber for her novel Improvement (Counterpoint Press)! Congratulations again to the four finalists: Hernán Diaz for In the Distance (Coffee House Press) Samantha Hunt for The Dark...
Join us for this exciting evening with André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name, as he discusses his critically acclaimed novel, particularly in the context of the Oscar-winning movie adaptation! André will be joined by Spencer Kornhaber, culture critic at The...
Announcing the 2018 Award for Fiction finalists: Hernan Diaz for In the Distance (Coffee House Press) Samantha Hunt for The Dark Dark (FSG Originals) Achy Obejas for The Tower of the Antilles (Akashic Books) Joan Silber for Improvement (Counterpoint) Jesmyn...
BELONGING: The 29th Annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration Monday, October 16th, 2017 | 6:00 PM NEW LOCATION: The Showroom | 1099 14th Street, NW On Monday, October 16th, 2017, PEN/Faulkner will hold its 29th Annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration at THE SHOWROOM in downtown...
Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will deliver the second annual Eudora Welty Lecture on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. Inspired by Eudora Welty’s lectures on One Writer’s Beginnings, the Eudora Welty...
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is pleased to announce that Jhumpa Lahiri will receive the 2017 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in an Award Ceremony & Reading held at the Folger Shakespeare Library on December 8th, 2017. Jhumpa Lahiri is the author...
The 37th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony & Dinner Saturday, May 6th, 2017 at 7:00 PM Folger Shakespeare Library Celebrating the winner as "first among equals," the 37th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony & Dinner will take place at the Folger Shakespeare...
The Displaced: An Evening with Laila Lalami, Shobha Rao, and Luis Urrea Moderator: Sarah Stillman Friday, April 7th, 2017 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol St., SE Washington, DC 20003 (map) Four Moroccans cross...
World War One and America Featuring: Elliot Ackerman, Maurice Decaul, Nicole Rizzuto, and Kayla Williams Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKETS HERE Hill Center @ the Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave, SE Washington, DC...
Judges Chris Abani, Chantel Acevedo, and Sigrid Nunez have announced their list of finalists for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, April 4th. Following the announcement, the 37th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction...
Class in the Black Community: Margo Jefferson, Angela Flournoy, and Marcus Guillory Monday, March 6th, 2017 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol St., SE Washington, DC 20003 (map) Margo Jefferson’s...
Cli-Fi: Nathaniel Rich and Kate Walbert Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol St., SE Washington, DC 20003 (map) The latest novels of Nathaniel Rich (Odds Against Tomorrow) and Kate...
Urgently Human: Morgan Parker and Roxane Gay in Conversation Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Lutheran Church of the Reformation (across the street from the Folger Shakespeare Library) 212 East Capitol St., NE Washington, DC...
The PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story: Joy Williams Friday, December 2nd, 2016 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $25. Folger Reading Room - Old Reading...
One Writer's Beginnings: The Inaugural Eudora Welty Lecture with Salman Rushdie Introduction by: Natasha Trethewey Co-sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library Thursday, October 20th, 2016 | 7:30 PM Purchase a...
RISK: The 28th Annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration Monday, September 26th, 2016 | 6:30 PM On Monday, Sept. 26th, 2016, PEN/Faulkner will hold its 28th Annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. This annual event supports...
Geraldine Brooks in conversation with Sally Quinn A Collaboration with the Scottish Rite Masons Tuesday, June 7th at 7:00 PM Scottish Rite Center 2800 16th St. NW Washington, DC 20009 [Map] Free | Email rsvp@penfaulkner.org for tickets Pulitzer Prize winning novelist...
The 36th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony & Dinner May 14th, 2016 at 7:00 PM Folger Shakespeare Library Celebrating the winner as "first among equals," the 36th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony & Dinner will take place at the Folger Shakespeare Library in...
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is pleased to announce that Joy Williams will receive the 2016 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in an Award Ceremony & Reading held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in December 2016. Joy Williams is the author most...
PEN/Faulkner Presents: The 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Judges Abby Frucht, Molly McCloskey, & Sergio Troncoso Thursday, May 12th, 2016 | 7:00 PM Free and open to the public Register Here Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Washington, DC...
Congratulations to James Hannaham, winner of the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel Delicious Foods (Little, Brown), and congratulations again to our four finalists: Julie Iromuanya for Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press) Viet Thanh Nguyen for The...
Judges Abby Frucht, Molly McCloskey, and Sergio Troncoso have announced their list of finalists for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced on April 5th, and the 36th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony & Dinner will be...
We Can Be the Change: Voices of Incarcerated Youth Free Minds Poetry Reading & Community Dialogue Wednesday, April 27th at 7 p.m. Hill Center 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE Washington, DC 20003 [Map] Reserve Your Free Tickets Here Read about Writers in Schools and Free...
Join PEN/Faulkner to welcome Mitchell Jackson and Leslie Jamison to D.C. with cocktails, conversation, and Union Kitchen catering at Compass Coffee! Doors open at 6:30 PM on Sunday, March 20th. Tickets are $75 here or at 202-898-9063. Student tickets are here....
Salman Rushdie to Give the Inaugural Eudora Welty Lecture in Washington, D.C. A new endowed lecture to be presented by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Eudora Welty Foundation Tickets $24 The PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the Eudora Welty Foundation announce...
Louise Erdrich May 10th, 2016 | 7:30 PM In Collaboration with the Library of Congress Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 (map) Tickets $15 online or at 202-544-7077 "Book by book, over the past three decades, Louise Erdrich...
Helen Oyeyemi | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 6:30 PM at Politics & Prose @ Busboys and Poets Takoma, in conversation with The New Yorker's Margaret Talbot The last Spring 2016 PEN/Faulkner and Politics & Prose reading will be Helen Oyeyemi, who is the...
A. Igoni Barrett | Blackass 6:30 PM at Politics & Prose @ Busboys and Poets 14th & V PEN/Faulkner and Politics & Prose present A. Igoni Barrett, author of Blackass and Love Is Power, or Something Like That. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service...
Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life In Conversation with Mic's Madhulikka Sikka 6:30 PM at Politics & Prose @ Busboys and Poets Takoma PEN/Faulkner and Politics & Prose present Hanya Yanagihara, Man Booker- and National Book Award-shortlisted author of A Little...
Alexander Chee | The Queen of the Night In Conversation with Hache Carrillo 6:30 PM at Politics & Prose @ Busboys and Poets Brookland The Politics & Prose and PEN/Faulkner Reading Series returns with Alexander Chee, 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Judge and author...
Edna O'Brien April 3rd, 2016 | 6:00 PM Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 600 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 (map) Tickets $20 online or at 877-987-6487 Edna O’Brien has been hailed as the doyenne of Irish literature. Her first novel in a decade, The Little...
Not Waving but Drowning: An Evening with Celeste Ng and John Wray Moderated by Katy Waldman Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library – Elizabethan Theatre 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, DC...
Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Present: Kseniya Melnik in Conversation with Lisa Page Thursday, January 21st, 2016 at 7 p.m. Free (reserve tickets here) Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Washington, DC 20003 The next event of the...
Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Present: Jeff Richards in conversation with Scott Berg Tuesday, November 17th at 7 p.m. Free Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave., SE Washington, DC 20003 Reserve Your Seat The second 2015-2016 event of the...
John Darnielle September 2nd, 2015 at 6:30 PM Politics & Prose @ Busboys and Poets Brookland In his first novel, Darnielle tells an intricate and powerful story about identity, roles, and a game that can have disastrous implications if taken too far. Now in...
Spark: The 27th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Celebration Monday, October 5th, 2015 | 6:30 PM On Monday, Oct. 5th, 2015, PEN/Faulkner will hold its 27th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Celebration at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington,...
Replacement Lives: An Evening with David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, and Lara Vapnyar In Partnership with the DCJCC Literary Festival Monday, October 19th, 2015 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library – Elizabethan Theatre 201 East...
I Feel Your Pain: An Evening with Mitchell S. Jackson and Leslie Jamison Moderated by Richard McCann Monday, March 21st, 2016 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library – Elizabethan Theatre 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, DC...
The PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story: Honoring Deborah Eisenberg Friday, December 4th, 2015 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $25 Folger Shakespeare Library - Old Reading Room 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, DC 20003 (map) Given...
Heartlands: An Evening with Jane Smiley Moderated by Linda Holmes Friday, November 6th, 2015 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, DC 20003 Jane Smiley is one of America’s foremost...
A Tribute to Robert Stone Featuring Madison Smartt Bell, Stephen Goodwin, Lauren Groff, and Tim O'Brien Monday, May 2nd, 2016 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library – Elizabethan Theatre 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, DC...
The PEN/Faulkner Reading Series and the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Present Chapter and Verse: An Evening with Julianna Baggott and Laura Kasischke Monday, November 23rd, 2015 | 7:30 PM Purchase a single ticket for $15 Folger Shakespeare Library – Elizabethan...
The first 2015-2016 event of the Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series features Padgett Powell in conversation with Katherine Heiny.
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is pleased to announce that Deborah Eisenberg will receive the 2015 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in an Award Ceremony & Reading held at the Folger Shakespeare Library in December 2015.
On June 2nd, the Scottish Rite Masons, in collaboration with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, proudly present Rachel Broudy, Richard McCann, Frazier O’Leary, George Pelecanos, and Morowa Yejidé with moderator Susan Eisenhower for an evening devoted to discussing PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools Program.
Celebrating the winner as “first among equals,” the 35th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony & Dinner will take place at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
Congratulations to Atticus Lish, winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel Preparation for the Next Life (Tyrant Books), and congratulations again to our four finalists: Jeffery Renard Allen for Song of the Shank (Graywolf Press) Jennifer...
Summer is almost here (it's true!), and while the school year is coming to a close, our Writers in Schools programming is not! Join us for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Summer Supper & Book Club and spend your summer reading great books, eating pizza and having...
Please join us for an evening of poetry and community dialogue brought to you by Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop and PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools program.
On May 2, 2015, we will honor the to-be-announced winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the four finalists for the prize. Each author will read from their work and be recognized on stage by this year's judges, Alexander Chee, Marc Fitten, and...
Judges Alexander Chee, Marc Fitten, and Deirdre McNamer have announced their list of finalists for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced on April 7th, and the 35th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony & Dinner will be held...
The next installment of the Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series features Brando Skyhorse, author of The Madonnas of Echo Park and Take This Man, in conversation with Lisa Page, Acting Director of Creative Writing, The George Washington University.
The next installment of the Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series features Erika DeSimone and Fidel Louis, editors of Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century, in conversation with Lisa Page, Acting Director of Creative Writing, The George Washington University.
Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Present: Maureen Corrigan in conversation with Jackson Bryer Tuesday, Nov. 11th at 7 p.m. Free (Please register for your free tickets here) The next installment of the Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series...
On Monday, Oct. 6th 2014, PEN/Faulkner will hold its 26th Annual Gala fundraiser at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. This annual event supports the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and our Writers in Schools programming and features some of...
The PEN/Faulkner & Hill Center Literary Reading Series returns with an event featuring authors Timothy Denevi & Judith Warner, who will read from their work and discuss ongoing research, trends, and attitudes related to the diagnosis and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
35th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony & Reading
Where We Are From: Place and Personhood in Fiction
All Things Animate, Beating in Unison: An Evening with T.C. Boyle
The Imaginary Real: Weaving Fact into Fiction – A reading and conversation with Ruth Ozeki & Claire Vaye Watkins
In the Beginning Was the Word: An Evening with James Carroll & Marilynne Robinson
2014 PEN/Malamud: The Legacy of Bernard Malamud: Celebrating Excellence in the Short Story
In This Way Comes Morning: New Writing of the West African Diaspora November 24, 2014 at 7:30 PM | $15 (buy) Folger Shakespeare Library - Elizabethan Theatre 201 East Capitol Street SE Washington, DC 20003 (map) The past few years have been a particularly...
A Storied Future: Ann Beattie in conversation with emerging writers from the Virginia Quarterly Review, Tope Folarin, Onyinhe Ihezukwu, Greg Jackson, and Brendan McKennedy
When D.C. Conspiracy founding member Matt Dembicki walked into the last session of this year’s PEN/Faulkner’s Summer Supper and Book Club, he was carrying a massive portfolio of current projects—including sheets detailing his creative process, a stack of Magic Bullet...
Derrick Weston Brown writes the kind of poetry that generates conversations that are at once discomfiting, engaging, and necessary. So when PEN/Faulkner’s Summer Supper and Book club gathered on an unusually mild Tuesday evening to discuss Wisdom Teeth, the poet’s...
You are the experts. You know more about these stories than I do. David Harris Ebenbach, poet, playwright, academic, and author of the 2005 Drue Heinz Literature Prize winning short story collection Between Camelots, said this to the PEN/Faulkner Summer Supper &...
On July 15th, the PEN/Faulkner Summer Supper and Book club played host to Danielle Evans, author of the critically acclaimed 2010 debut, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, a collection of eight stories. Evans, whose writing has been described by The New York...
On May 10, 2014 we honored the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Karen Joy Fowler, and the four finalists for the prize, Daniel Alarcón, Percival Everett, Joan Silber, and Valerie Trueblood. Each author read from their work and was recognized on stage by...
Minutes before the thunderstorms that lent the Capitol a brilliant rainbow two Tuesdays ago, author Elliott Holt walked into the PEN/Faulkner Summer Supper & Book to discuss her 2013 novel YouAre One of Them. Upon its release, the Washington Post declared that,...
This first dispatch from our Summer Supper & Book Club comes from Kangsen Feka Wakai, who is focusing on Writers in Schools-related projects during his summer internship with us. Stay tuned for more updates from the Book Club right here at the Writers in Schools...
On Monday, March 31st at 7 p.m., Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, in collaboration with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, will host its second annual community poetry reading and dialogue at Hill Center.
So far, 2014 may be best known as the year of the polar vortex so far, but we're not letting the cold (or the school delays and closures) get us down. Already we have plans for Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the acclaimed novel Wench all set to discuss Solomon...
On Wednesday, Jan. 29th, at 7 p.m., Hill Center and PEN/Faulkner will present author Molly McCloskey in conversation with writer Lisa Page. This reading and conversation is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.
When an author comes to DC to read for PEN/Faulkner, we ask if he or she would be willing to participate in Writers in Schools. We lay out the basics of the program—that we aim to serve students in public and public charter high schools by donating books, providing...
Whose Life Is it, Anyway: The Literary Biographer’s Craft. On Tuesday, Feb. 4th, Blake Bailey, Ruth Franklin, and D.T. Max will take to the Folger stage to engage in a reading and conversation with author and New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot.
Survival Instincts: First-time Novelists on the Ties That Bind. On Monday, Feb. 24th novelists Ayana Mathis and Justin Torres will read at the Folger Shakespeare Library and engage in conversation moderated by novelist Elliott Holt.
On Mar. 14, at 7 p.m., Hill Center and PEN/Faulkner will present Phil Klay, who will read from and discuss his acclaimed debut story collection, Redeployment. This event will be held at Hill Center, and is free and open to the public.
The Heart of Things Human: An evening with Richard Ford, in conversation with Ron Charles. On Thursday, April 10, acclaimed author Richard Ford will read and engage in conversation with the Washington Post‘s Ron Charles.
PLEASE NOTE: Our reading series event Two Lives in Language: Amy Tan & Deborah Tannen in Conversation has been rescheduled for Wed., April 16th at 7:30 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation.
On April 25, at 7 p.m., Hill Center and PEN/Faulkner will present author Rebecca Mead in conversation with journalist and author Hanna Rosin. Mead will read from her acclaimed work of narrative nonfiction My Life in Middlemarch.
One month ago, on Monday, October 7th, esteemed writers from all over the country came to D.C. to read at the PEN/Faulkner 25th Annual Gala—as well as to visit local schools to discuss their books. Among the writers was Roy Scranton, who visited McKinley Tech to talk...
The WinS Triathlon with Alison Stewart If you’ve been following the WinS Blog for a while now, you’ve certainly read about the time-honored tradition of the “WinS Marathon.” It’s when a writer visits three or more class sections in a single day, which, given block...
WinS Author Questionnaire with Melanie S. Hatter The WinS Questionnaire is back, and we’re featuring writer Melanie S. Hatter in this first installment of the school year! When Hatter set out to write the novel that would eventually become The Color of My Soul, she...
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Gala: “Renewal,” featuring new work composed for the evening by authors Christopher Castellani, Matt Gallagher & Roy Scranton, Yiyun Li, Anthony Marra, George Pelecanos, Mona Simpson, Christopher Tilghman, Meg Wolitzer, Tiphanie Yanique, and May Kay Zuravleff and featuring Master of Ceremonies Calvin Trillin.
The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival presents E.L. Doctorow Sunday, Oct. 6, 20137:00 - 8:30 PMMontgomery College Cultural Arts Center7995 Georgia AvenueSilver Spring, MD 20910 [Map] E.L. Doctorow Andrew's Brain: A Novel | Opening...
The next installment of the Hill Center/ PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series features award-winning writer, filmmaker, and hip-hop artist MK Asante who will read from and discuss his new book, BUCK: A Memoir. Asante will be joined in conversation by writer Lisa Page,...
Last night, the Summer Supper and Book Club talked about A Tribe Called Quest and bar brawls in Adams Morgan—all for the sake of poetry week and our discussion of Derrick Weston Brown’s Wisdom Teeth, of course. We started by talking about the music and musicians who...
Last night, we kicked off our session with a warm-up exercise in which Summer Supper & Book Club participants were asked to imagine that they were in a band and that they had to pick their favorite characters from literature and film as their bandmates. Book Club...
About the Winner BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁENZ Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club (Cinco Puntos Press) Benjamin Alire Sáenz's Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club presents seven stories set on the south Texas border of El Paso and Juárez, examining...
Last night, PEN/Faulkner’s Summer Supper and Book Club looked at the happier side of the Depression as the group discussed Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America by David A. Taylor. Sharing their own associations of the Depression,...
No, it’s not a strange version of literary “six degrees of separation”, but it is among the many questions David Taylor, sets out to answer in Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America. The answer, then, to the riddle is that all three...
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