Tuesday, June 17, 7:00pm
Housing Works Used Bookstore & Café (126 Crosby St, South of Houston)
Francisco Goldman and David Lida on Mexico City and Latin America

David Lida (First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capitol of the 21^st Century) talks with Francisco Goldman (The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?) about Mexico City and Latin America Tuesday at Housing Works.

Thursday, June 19, 6:30 – 8:30pm
McNally Robinson (52 Prince Street between Lafayette and Mulberry)
Joseph O’Neill (Netherland) in conversation with Pantheon editor Deborah Garrison

A post 9/11 novel based in New York has a lot of opportunity to falter, but I’ve heard good things about Netherland. It’s the story of a European man living here and dealing with all that entails, having ambiguous feelings about his adopted town. Joseph O’Neill has written two other novels and a family history and is a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly. Thursday he’ll talk with his editor Deborah Garrison about fiction and the editorial process.

Thursday, June 19, 7:00pm
BookCourt (163 Court Street in Brooklyn)
Nam Le (The Boat) with Liza Monroy (Mexican High)

Nam Le, author of the much-talked-about and much-acclaimed debut collection of short stories The Boat, is in town to do a few events. He was born in Vietnam and raised in Autstralia, and the short stories in this collection range from the semi-autobiographical story about a character name Nam struggling to complete his master’s at Iowa to stories based in Colombia and Tehran. It’s on my to-read pile. If you can’t make it Thursday, you can check his website for more events in New York and elsewhere, here. You can also read the short story “Tehran Calling” online at fivechapters.com. Thursday he will be reading with Liza Monroy, whose first novel is Mexican High, of which you can read more about here.