The 92nd Street Y has some great pairings coming up: A.S. Byatt with Rabih Alameddine, John Banville with Colum McCann, and many more.
Alison Bechdel and her pal Queer Theory Professor discuss Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger, an excellent ghost story.
The great Felipe Alfau’s Locos has been adapted to be staged at the Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Festival.
Philip Hensher says Calvino’s The Complete Cosmicomics straddles the divide between his early realism & later “theoretical fantasies.”