Author Kathleen Hughes will read from her works at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in Daugherty-Palmer Commons at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Hughes, a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, published her first novel, “Dear Mrs. Lindbergh,” in 2003 and is working on her second. The talk is sponsored by the Department of English and the VOICES Reading Series and is free and open to the public.