PEN Award Given to Author Whose Book is Being Read By Me, No-one Else Important

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The literati will descend upon DC this weekend, having just wrapped up the PEN World Voices festival in New York City. We of course don’t get the week-long celebration of international literature in culture, we get the fancy one-night-only $80 ticket presentation of the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award. (Okay, maybe I’m just a little put out that I’m going to be out of town.) Past winnersnt include Philip Roth, John Updike, Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolf and Don Delillo. Joseph O’Neill, author of the post-9/11 novel Netherland will received the award at the ceremony to be held tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in the Folger Shakespeare Library. Oh, hey, did you hear that Obama is reading his book? Joseph O’Neill’s book is being read by Obama, you know.

Acacia has lived in DC since graduating from Vassar College with degrees in English and Italian. She cries daily at the thought of her imminent departure from this beloved city, as she will begin a Fulbright teaching grant in the Campania region, Italy come October. She’ll be blogging that experience too. Get at her: acaciaO@welovedc.com or follow her on twitter.

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