Part of Eat, Drink & Be Literary
Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:30pm
Doors open at 6pm
Moderated by Deborah Treisman
“Hemon’s writing sometimes reminds one of Nabokov’s…yet the feat of his invention exceeds the Russian’s” —The New Yorker
Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; andLove and Obstacles, a series of stories about coming of age in Communist Sarajevo. He is a Guggenheim fellow as well as the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”
