Jane Smiley April 15, 2008

Jane Smiley makes this welcome Elliott Bay return to read from her most recent novel, 'Ten Days in the Hills.' Smiley goes Hollywood in this scintillating tale of an extended Decameron-esque Los Angeles house party. She delivers a delightful, subtly observant sendup of Tinseltown folly, yet she treats her characters, their concern with compelling surfaces and their perpetual quest to capture reality through artifice, with warmth and seriousness.