George Mason University Updates One of Its Biggest Events
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
Good news for the Northern Virginia literary scene.
Fall for the Book, NoVA’s biggest annual lit festival, is no longer a once-a-year event.
The primary celebration is still every September, but now George Mason University will keep the scene energized all year with monthly events.
StoryCorps founder Dave Isay headlines the first of these new readings this Saturday, Oct. 15. StoryCorps is a nonprofit project committed to recording and preserving as many individual life stories as possible. Wjat started as a booth in New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 2003 accelerated into a collection of over 30,000 interviews.
Isay will talk primarily about his book, “Listening is an Act of Love,” in which he collects some of the most compelling StoryCorps stories.
Although this weekend is Family Weekend at GMU, the reading is completely free and open to the public. It takes place this Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Johnson Center Cinema on GMU’s Fairfax campus.
–Matt Basheda
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