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).

The author reads from her provocative, keenly observed, and wickedly smart 2011 work of fiction that maps America's shifting cultural landscape from the late 1970s to the present through the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters.

One of our favorite readers, Wayne Koestenbaum held court in August 2011 to read and tell tales on the occasion of the publication of Humiliation, an unusual, disarming blend of autobiography and cultural commentary. People are so weird.

Award winning author Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. On May 26th, 2011 Shepard read from this new collection of short stories, You Think That's Bad, released in March 2011.

On May 3, 2011 192 Books and Two Dollar Radio hosted a reading with Barbara Browning, author of The Correspondence Artist, and Jay Neugeboren who wrote You Are My Heart. Relationships, relationships, relationships.

On March 31, 2011, contemporary poets Jeremy Schmall and Jennifer L. Knox read a selection of their work at 192 Books in New York City. Schmall laments the current state of America and Knox lists objects that've gotten stuck in all the wrong places.

Artist Zoe Leonard and historian Anne Reynolds share a mutual interest in Niagara Falls and the book at the center of this conversation brings together thousands of postcard images. The 1953 film with Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten makes a cameo.

The artist's creation of computer fonts named "erotic idiolects" transform Plato's original texts into an erotic/robotic oral experience and you must hear to appreciate. Chan read from his new book Phaedrus Pron at 192 Books on March 29, 2011.

The author addresses what is on his mind upon the US release of his latest collection of nine stories with no shortage of lost and lonely people, displacement and return, and his masterfully satisfying sense of the bittersweet. 192 Books hosts.

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.