Leading Lights of Lit
| 11 Nov 2014 | 01:11
For an evening of young literary luminaries off the usual post modern track, 92nd Street Y has an all-star lineup. Nigerian-American author Uzodinma Iweala wrote the Beasts of No Nation, a brutal and intense story about a West African boy, which has been called startling and stunning and praised by just about everyone for its original voice. For this reading, Jamaica Kincaid, another worldly writer with serious street cred (and Iwealas mentor), gives him the intro treatment. But that doesnt compare with Heidi Julavits (founding editor of The Believer) introduction to Zadie Smith wholl read from On Beauty. Sometimes all the hypes worth it.
September 18. 92nd St. Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. (at 92nd St.), 212-415-5500; 8, $18.