Sven Birkerts and André Aciman

Two important contemporary writers will talk about their latest essay collections. David Foster Wallace said about Birkerts: "Expansive and eclectic and laserous and lucid and impassioned and heartlessly smart, Birkerts is the most interesting and persuasive critic in the United States today." And Kirkus Reviews says of Aciman's book: "These essays sing with bracing clarity."