A collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program

Named for Antonie Brentano—believed by many to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved”—the Brentano String Quartet is beloved by audiences whether they are performing immortal repertoire or contemporary compositions. Currently the quartet-in-residence at Yale University, the members of the ensemble will share their expertise with student musicians as part of the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program.

R.O. Kwon is the author of The Incendiaries, published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago (U.K.). The Incendiaries was an American Booksellers Association Indie Next #1 Great Read and Indies Introduce selection, and it is being translated into four languages. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, BuzzFeed, Noon, Time, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the...

Writers’ Workshop graduate Maria Kuznetsova will read from her uproarious novel, Oksana, Behave! “What luck for readers that Oksana can't behave! Little devil, infinite imbecile, poor futureless child—all the names her displaced, loving family give to her as she crashes and burns and wanders the wilderness of her inheritance, fit perfectly . . . This novel is a stark, hilarious delight." —Paul Harding

Maria Kuznetsova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and moved to the United States as a child. Her...

Please join us for a Q & A session with Evan James in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 29.