7pm
Join us for a very special evening where Sean Wilsey and Jennifer Egan will join forces to discuss Wilsey’s translation of One, None, and a Hundred Grand, Luigi Pirandello’s tragicomic classic. We’ll be serving up some delectable Sicilian wine to accompany this delectable conversation. We hope to see you!
SEAN WILSEY is the author of a memoir, Oh the Glory of It All, an essay collection, More Curious, and, in collaboration with the actress Molly Shannon, the bestselling memoir Hello, Molly! His documentary film about 9/11, IX XI, is forthcoming in 2026.
JENNIFER EGAN's 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was on the list of Best Books of the 21st Century in the New York Times. Her new novel, The Candy House, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year. Also a journalist, she recently spent a year writing on street homelessness and supportive housing for The New Yorker. She has served as President of PEN America.