Events & Calendars Fiction Reading: Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the novel The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and which Junot Diaz described thusly: "Incandescent. When your eyes close, the power of this novel, of Hemon's colossal talent, remains." Hemon has also written three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in Chicago. Hemon's reading will be followed by refreshments.