Monday, May 1: Jean Hanff Korelitz joins us from New York City for a reading from her new novel, The Devil and Webster. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm.

"Korelitz's new novel is a smart, semi-satire about the reign of identity politics on college campuses today...The Devil and Webster is wittily on target about, among other things, social class and privilege, silencing and old-school feminist ambivalence about power." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known and Admission, a twisty new novel about a college president, a baffling student protest, and some of the most hot-button issues on today's college campuses. Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. So Naomi isn't surprised or unduly alarmed when Webster students begin the fall semester with an outdoor encampment around "The Stump"-a traditional campus gathering place for generations of student activists-to protest a popular professor's denial of tenure. A former student radical herself, Naomi admires the protestors' passion, especially when her own daughter, Hannah, joins their ranks. Then Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian student with a devastating personal history, emerges as the group's leader, and the demonstration begins to consume Naomi's life, destabilizing Webster College from the inside out. As the crisis slips beyond her control, Naomi must take increasingly desperate measures to protect her friends, colleagues, and family from an unknowable adversary. Touching on some of the most topical and controversial concerns at the heart of our society, this riveting novel examines the fragility that lies behind who we think we are-and what we think we believe.

Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of the novels You Should Have Known, Admission, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers. Her sixth novel, The Devil and Webster, was published in March 2017.

She has also written a novel for children, Interference Powder, and a collection of poetry, The Properties of Breath. From November 2016 - January 2017, her immersive adaptation (with Paul Muldoon) of James Joyce's "The Dead", THE DEAD, 1904, was produced for the Irish Repertory Theatre at the American Irish Historical Society.

Born and raised in New York City and educated at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge, Korelitz lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon, and their children. She is the founder of BOOKTHEWRITER, a New York City based service that connects authors and book groups.