Jane Smiley is one of America’s foremost novelists. Among other honors, she has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2006, received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. PEN/Faulkner brings her to DC to read from her newest novel, Golden Age, the third in a century-spanning trilogy that began with Some Luck and Early Warning. Tickets $15.

In the Reading Room at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street, SE, Washington, DC. Click here for more info.