Blake Bailey

Award-winning, bestselling writer (and Phillip Roth biographer) Blake Bailey reads from his new book,Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson.
(“Bailey urges a revisiting of the work of this fascinating novelist of keen psychological depthÉ Eloquent, poignant portrait of the artist as outsider and misfit.“ Kirkus, starred review)

Nathan Englander

Critically-acclaimed, bestselling writer Nathan Englander reads from his new collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.
(“It takes an exceptional combination of moral humility and moral assurance to integrate fine-grained comedy and large-scale tragedy as daringly as Nathan Englander does.” Jonathan Franzen)

Sonia Taitz

Critically-acclaimed writer Sonia Taitz reads from her memoir,
The Watchmaker's Daughter .
(“A heartbreaking memoir of healing power and redeeming devotion, Sonia Taitz's The Watchmaker's Daughter has the dovish beauty and levitating spirit of a psalm.“ James Wolcott, The New Yorker

“Funny and heartwrenching.“ People Magazine)

Meg Wolitzer

Critically-acclaimed writer, Meg Wolitzer reads from her new novel, The Interestings.
(“Like Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Meg Wolitzer gives us the full picture here, charting her characters' lives from the self-dramatizing of adolescence, through the resignation of middle age, to the attainment of a wisdom that holds all the intensities of life in a single, sustained chord, much like this book itself. The wit, intelligence, and deep feeling of Wolitzer's writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level.” -Jeffrey Eugenides)

Jennifer Gilmore

Award-winning writer Jennifer Gilmore reads from her new novel, The Mothers.
(“A taut, emotionally gripping novel about one couple's passionate desire for a child and their heartrending journey through adoption, from a critically acclaimed writer whose voice is at turns wise and barbed with sharp humor” Vanity Fair)

Charles Dubow

Andrew Solomon

National Book Award winning writer Andrew Solomon reads from his bestselling new book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity .
( “It's a book everyone should read and there's no one who wouldn't be a more imaginative and understanding parent-or human being-for having done so.” Julie Myerson The New York Times Book Review

” Solomon's first chapter, entitled ‘Son,’ is as masterly a piece of writing as I've come across all year. It combines his own story with a taut and elegant pécis of this book's arguments. It is required reading...This is a book that shoots arrow after arrow into your heart.” Dwight Garner The New York Times)

Bronwen Hruska

Debut novelist Bronwen Hruska reads from her new book, Accelerated .
(“What starts off as an entertaining romp through the world of privileged parents and private schools, spins itself into a harrowing tale. A deftly, unexpectedly terrifying first novel.” A. M. Homes)

Alexandra Aldrich

Direct descendent of the Astor Dynasty, Alexandra Aldrich reads from her memoir, The Astor Orphan.
(“A sparklingly mischievous debut. . . . Aldrich's narrative tidily and fondly bears witness to the inexorable unraveling of a storied genealogy.” Publishers Weekly -starred review )