Zachary Lazar and Layli Long Soldier will read from their work at 8 pm on Thursday,  November 1st in the Frank Conroy Reading Room.

The author of four novels and a memoir, Zachary Lazar’s work creates nuanced, complex fictions out of real world events. Of Lazar’s latest novel Kiese Limon writes: “More than any book I’ve read in the twenty-first century, Zachary Lazar’s Vengeance makes the reader reckon with the questions of what’s real, what’s imagined, and why those questions matter more in...

Author, documentary producer, Roboprofessor, and cultural critic Kembrew McLeod will read and show images from his new book, The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queens—a kaleidoscopic tour of a small geographic area had an outsized impact on American culture during the 1960s and 1970s.

"Downtown New York in the latter half of twentieth century was so much more than a Warhol print and a...

Poets Austin Smith and Dora Malech will read from their new poetry collections.

Austin Smith will read from Flyover Country, a collection of poems drawing on his Illinois childhood on a dairy farm. Smith challenges the idea that the American Midwest is mere “flyover country,” while suggesting America itself has become a flyover country, carrying out drone strikes and surveillance abroad in a state of perpetual war Americans seem helpless to stop. “A book of vital and generative reckoning.”—Jane...

Sarah Heyward will give a Q&A about screenwriting in the Frank Conroy Reading Room on October 24th at 4pm

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard College, Heyward has worked as a writer and producer on acclaimed shows including Girls (2012), The Bicycle (2013), and SKAM Austin (2018). D.T. Max, writing for The New Yorker, says that SKAM Austin is “structurally dazzling” and “may be the future of TV.” For her work on Girls, Heyward received the Writers Guild of America Award for...