Booker Prize finalist and award-winning author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki returns for a reading from her dazzling debut story collection, The Typing Lady.

Diving into the depths of childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ruth Ozeki’s new collection brings us into eleven singular, richly imagined worlds and cements her as a writer at the height of her powers. A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches as the ghost of his wife’s ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of a young publishing assistant and rails against the state of modern literature. Intimate, expansive, and deeply philosophically engaged, Ozeki uncovers the human drive to record ourselves in language — and how language, over time, records us in return.

In a revelatory evening of reading and conversation about the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we abandon, and the stories we become, hear Ozeki discuss the art of writing and the lives — real and imagined — that shape us.