The Party’s Over: Stories about Old Money, Loose Morals, and The Blues

May 1, 2008 at 7:30 pm at Busboys & Poets (14th and V). FREE

As part of the 2008 Big Read, and in tribute to this year’s selection of The Great Gatsby, SpeakeasyDC, the region’s premier storytelling organization, presents The Party’s Over: Stories about Old Money, Loose Morals, and The Blues. Join us for a night of original, personal stories and poems that touch on the themes and times that appear in this American classic.

Featuring Jeffrey Brady, Meredith Maslich, Patrick Washington, and Seaton Smith.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment.

The Big Read answers a big need. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, a 2004 report by the National Endowment for the Arts, found that not only is literary reading in America declining rapidly among all groups, but that the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young. The concerned citizen in search of good news about American literary culture would study the pages of this report in vain. Find out more — Amy Saidman Director, SpeakeasyDC