It's a two-author-for-one deal at this year's Friends of the UNCG Libraries dinner.

Lee Smith, novelist and short story writer, and Hal Crowther, essayist and cultural critic, will headline the dinner Wednesday, March 16. Crowther and Smith, husband and wife, have titled their remarks "Prose and Cons."

The reception begins at 6:30 p.m. in Cone Ballroom, Elliott University Center. The seated dinner begins at 7:15 p.m., and the program begins at 8:30 p.m.

Proceeds benefit the Friends of the UNCG Libraries. Call (336) 334-4849 or visit www.uncg.edu/euc/boxoffice/ for tickets.

Dinner tickets are $48 for Friends members, and $58 for nonmembers, and must be ordered by March 4.

Program-only tickets are $15, and may be purchased in advance or at the door on a space-available basis.