NATHANIEL RICH
Monday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m.

From Paris Review editor Nathaniel Rich—whose essays and reviews have appeared, variously, in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, and more—comes one of the year's most touted and awaited debut novels, The Mayor's Tongue (Riverhead). "I read The Mayor's Tongue with ever-increasing delight, rooting for all my heart for the young protagonist on his near-mythic quest. This is an elegantly structured, brilliantly-told novel, by turns terrifying, touching, wildly funny, and always generous and magical. The Mayor's Tongue is about how we talk to each other and how make-believe helps us get on with our lives; most of all, it's about love." - Stephen King. "Ambitious, intelligent, hallucinatory, and, most importantly: heartfelt. Here is a young writer who is not afraid to give literature a kick in the pants, a writer deep in the thrall of language." - Gary Shytengart.

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