Novelist Samantha Hunt will present a reading of her work at 2:30 p.m. in the McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St., as part of the Writers on Writing Reading series, presented by Brown's Program in Literary Arts. Hunt's most recent book, The Invention of Everything Else, a novel about the life of Nikola Tesla, best known for his revolutionary work on electricity, was a finalist for the Orange Prize. Hunt's short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and many other publications, and on the radio program This American Life.