PUMPKIN HEAD: A Special Halloween Performance Featuring Bill Connington and Joyce Carol Oates

Get ready for an exclusive and memorable Halloween event! Join legendary novelist Joyce Carol Oates and acclaimed actor Bill Connington for a special live reading and conversation about Oates' chilling story Pumpkin Head. This rare event will take place at the historic New York Society Library, promising an afternoon of suspense, literary insight, and captivating performance. First published in The New Yorker in 2009, a disturbing tale of loss, it explores “the violence of bereavement” and a “woman floundering about in a world of male force.” A recent widow encounters a male visitor who both intrigues and repels her. She struggles with establishing her own identity after the loss of her husband. In this special spooky season event, Bill Connington presents Pumpkin Head and converses with its author, Joyce Carol Oates.