Louis Menand: "It is modernity that makes totalitarianism possible"

From literature, music, visual and performing arts, from sciences to cinema,…


Bret Easton Ellis: the 'Enfant Terrible' of American literature never felt so authentic

Controversial, comical, profound, neurotic, but now more comfortable in his own…


Author Louis Menand and his Free World - November 16, at FLAD

Renowned critic and essayist Louis Menand is the next guest of Meet the Author.…


Bret Easton Ellis, author of 'American Psycho', October 31 at FLAD

Meet the Author returns to FLAD on October 31st with the author of the iconic…


Meet the Author: Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive, June 27 at FLAD

Before the summer break, FLAD is hosting another of today's most important…


Meet the Author: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen - May 17, at FLAD

The story of the nameless, pro-Communist Vietnamese spy and refugee in the US…


"I'm going to write another book, it's going to piss people off, and I'll still be fine."

It sold almost 4 million copies and its translated into 37 languages. American…


Meet the Author: Jeanine Cummins and American Dirt - March 23rd at FLAD

Meet the Author - Encounter with American Writers returns on March 23, at…


Meet the Author: Anthony Marra and fiction in times of war

He lived and studied in Eastern Europe, which allowed him to experience the…


Meet the Author: "I've never opened a book of political philosophy like that"

The discovery of The Human Condition as if it opened up a new world.…