A brand new series of words and music led by Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet and New Yorker Poetry Editor Paul Muldoon on the second Monday of each month. Reading and performing with his Princeton-based music collective, the Wayside Shrines, Muldoon will be joined each month by different special literary and musical guests dropping in to various performances. On Monday, September 8th, Paul will be joined by celebrated authors Nick Laird and Zadie Smith, as well as songwriter Aoife. 

Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist and short story writer. She has published four novels, all of which have received substantial critical praise. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors, and was also included in the 2013 list. Smith has won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2006 and her novel White Teeth was included in TIME magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 list.