Recorded on October 13th, 2011 at 192 Books, Helen Dewitt reads from her 2011 novel. Lucidly and methodically written, Lightning Rods explores sex, corporate culture, and humanity set in an abstracted yet familiar version of America.

On Sept. 27, 2011 192 Books hosted a reading by Iowa Prize winner Josh Rolnick, author of Pulp and Paper (8 stories and many NY/NJ lives involved), and Pushcart Prize winner Anna Solomon, author of The Little Bride (a mail order bride from Odessa).

Siddhartha Deb, author of The Beautiful and the Damned and Aatish Taseer, author of Noon, gather for a reading and discussion on the rapidly changing landscapes of Pakistan and India, moderated by GRANTA editor, John Freeman.

A reading from Anatomy of a Disappearance (The Dial Press), the second novel by the Libyan author of In the Country of Men. Set in Cairo, the book is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Matar acclaim.

A 2011 reading and conversation with Graywolf Publisher Fiona McRae and Graywolf authors Maile Chapman (Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto), Jessica Francis Kane (The Report), and Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Picking Bones from Ash).

Award winning author Danzy Senna reads from her new collection of short stories, You Are Free at 192 Books on May 17, 2011. Her first novel Caucasia was a national bestseller and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year.

Columbia Professor and acclaimed author Simon Schama visits 192 Books to promote his 2011 book, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a compendium of thirty essays previously published but collected in a single volume for the first time.

Graphic artist and author Lauren Redniss reads from and discusses her illustrated chronicle of the lives of the 19th Century scientists Marie and Pierre Curie who discovered love and radium (before things got complicated). Fascinating history.

The prize-winning historian discusses the main themes in in his dual biography: activism and radicalism vs. integrationism as different brands of gay, civil, and feminist rights movements. Recorded on March 9th, 2011 at 192 Books.

The author reads and comments on a new book, Open City, at an event recorded March 10, 2011 at 192 Books in New York City. Cole has written a haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender.

At a turning point in Harlem's history, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy in stories that carry the hope of many generations: that Harlem would be the ground from which blacks fully entered America's democracy.