Jack De Bellis, the John Updike Professor in Residence at Alvernia University and a director of The John Updike Society, will lecture on “Rabbit at Rest in Shillington” at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 10, at the Franco Library, Alvernia University, in Reading, Pennsylania.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the 2011 Greater Reading Literary Festival at Alvernia.

De Bellis, who is Professor Emeritus at Lehigh University, is the author or editor of numerous books on John Updike, including the indispensable John Updike Encyclopedia.