Playwright and fiction writer James Magruder (SUGARLESS, LET ME SEE IT) reads from his latest novel, LOVE SLAVES OF HELEN HADLEY HALL, a sexed-up Ivy League telenovela set at Yale in 1983.

James Magruder’s fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Subtropics, Bloom, The Normal School, Gargoyle, New Stories from the Midwest, and elsewhere. His début novel, Sugarless, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; his linked story collection, Let Me See It, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2014. His adaptations of works by Molière, Marivaux, Lesage, Labiche, Gozzi, Dickens, Hofmannsthal, and Giraudoux have been staged on and off-Broadway, across the country, and in Germany and Japan. He teaches dramaturgy at Swarthmore College and fiction at the University of Baltimore.