A reading by Mary Caponegro, author of Tales from the Next Village, The Star Café, Five Doubts and The Complexities of Intimacy. Caponegro has received awards from the Westinghouse Foundation, the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the prestigious Rome Prize from the Academy of American Arts and Letters. The Washington Post has called her a "master of the English language." The American Book Review described her work as "irresistibly brilliant," and William Gass called Caponegro "a godsend."