13 Ways of Looking at the Novel with Jane Smiley

Fri, Sep 23
12:30 pm
Members free; Public $7

Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Jane Smiley, embarked on a quest to
read one hundred novels for inspiration after 9/11. She reports back
with a bounty of perspectives about the pleasures of reading, how and
why a novel succeeds; the role of the novelist, and which books most
affected her life and career.

Jane Smiley is the author of ten works of fiction including The Age
of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand
Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, Moo, Horse Heaven and
Good Faith. Her non-fiction includes, A Year at the Races and a
biography of Charles Dickens.

Venue:

The Mechanics' Institute
57 Post Street
San Francisco
415-393-0100
http://milibrary.org

Just off the Montgomery BART station.

Additional Info:

415-393-0100
http://www.milibrary.org/events.html