PEN/Faulkner's February Reading, Monday, Feb. 9th, 7:30 PM
January 07, 2015
The Imaginary Real: Weaving Fact into Fiction. An evening with Ruth Ozeki and Claire Vaye Watkins at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
201 East Capitol Street SE, Washington DC 20003
Tickets $15 at 202-544-7077 or here.
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest whose novels include My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Her films have been shown on PBS, at the Sundance Film Festival, and at numerous universities. She lives in British Columbia and New York City.
Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the story collection Battleborn, which was named a Best Book of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, and Time Out New York. In 2012, the National Book Foundation named Watkins one of the 5 Best Writers Under 35. She teaches at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.