New York Times best-selling novelist Claire Messud joins Pulitzer-Prize winning author Richard Russo for a lively conversation about books, writing and all things literary. Messud is the award-winning author of The Emperor’s Children, The Woman Upstairs, and The Burning Girl. The LA Times calls her “an absolute master story teller.” Russo is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Risk Pool, Mohawk, Nobody’s Fool, Everybody’s Fool, That Old Cape Magic, Bridge of Sighs, Elsewhere, Trajectory and the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Empire Falls.