Lydia Davis and Hisham Matar

Nov 11, 2019

Lydia Davis and Hisham Matar read from new nonfiction and answer questions from the audience. Davis’s new book is Essays One, a collection of criticism, musings and explorations spanning five decades; Matar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Return, reads from A Month in Siena, a personal exploration of visual art and one’s inner landscape. Introduced by Eliot Weinberger and Cressida Leyshon.
 
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