When: Sunday, May 4
Where: The New York Public Library, South Court Auditorium: 5th Ave. & 42nd St.
What time: 2 p.m.

With Jeffrey Eugenides & Daniel Kehlmann

Discussed: fraudulence in historical novels; the importance of tone in historical writing; indirect speech and narrative voice; angering creative writing instructors; Gabriel García Márquez and magical realism; Aguirre, the Wrath of God and the function of the jungle in Measuring the World; Thomas Pynchon and authorial voice; the influence of film and television on literature.

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About Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel Middlesex, The New York Times Book Review said, “the book’s length feels like its author’s arms stretching farther and farther to encompass more people, more life . . . but mostly it is a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination, and of love.” Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World was hailed as “ravishing” by the German paper Der Spiegel. Both authors’ books were runaway international best-sellers and today these writers come together, admirers of each other’s work, to talk about making fiction from fact and much more.