Brad Leithauser reads from his latest work, a comic novel about a
Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for
happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime.

BRAD LEITHAUSER is a widely acclaimed poet and novelist and the
recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship. This is his seventeenth book. He is a professor in the Writing
Seminars at Johns Hopkins University