Literary lights ponder before dinner at the Folger; media types don aprons for a cause.

By Donna Shor

Liz Glover, Nikki Schwab, Barry Glassman, Enzo Fargione, Patrick Gavin, and Christine Delargy at Teatro Goldoni.

REVELATION = INSPIRATION

At the 21st annual PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award Gala, humorist Calvin Trillin announced that he lacked credentials to produce a trendy public confessional. “I had a happy childhood,” he said from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Elizabethan Stage. “But please don’t let that get back to New York!”

Twelve distinguished writers read their three-minute takes on the official topic, “Revelation.” Several referenced the Biblical book of Revelation, with Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks wittily extracting, “Write what you see” from the musings of John of Patmos. National Book Award winner and Bethesda resident Alice McDermott captured a funny and fruitless dialogue with her mother on the Virgin Mary’s place in that controversial scriptural work.

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Model in Etro. Photo by Kyle Samperton

Location: Saks Jandel, Chevy Chase

Photos by Kyle Samperton

FASHION FORWARD: Washington’s stylish set gathered at Saks Jandel to take in resort wear from J. Mendel and Etro and meet the men behind the celebrated design houses. The event, featuring a runway show of diaphanous evening and warm weather garments, benefited Knock out Abuse. THE FASHIONISTAS: J. Mendel’s Gilles Mendel, ETRO’s Marco Pievani and Robert Amaro, Andrea Roane, and Ludmila Cafritz.

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