Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Salman Rushdie

A rare US appearance by László Krasznahorkai-the “contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse,” wrote Susan Sontag. Winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize, Krasznahorkai is author of The Melancholy of Resistance, Satantango and Seiobo There Below. His new collection of nonfiction is Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens: Reportage.
He is joined by one of his biggest local admirers, Salman Rushdie, whose new novel, Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, is set in a New York of the near future made strange after a massive storm. “He is rare and magical writer,” wrote Michael Chabon.
The writers will be introduced by Valeria Luiselli, who will also interview them after their readings. Luiselli's new novel is The Story of My Teeth, which is "playful, attentive and very smart without being for a minute pretentious," wrote The New York Times. "She is an exciting writer to watch, not only for this book, but also for the fresh approach she brings to fiction, one that invites participation and reaction, even skepticism-a living, breathing map."
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[@juliamargaretcameron]

One of the loveliest sounding voices I ever heard...!

[@lb-in2sx]

Is it me or is the guy speaking, his voice feels like a massage So soothing

[@MariannMakrai]

he always reads so calmingly, his words are like balsam....HUngarian at its best

[@mauricioortega1261]

1:21:47 Laszlo explaining how he comes up with ideas reminds me a lot to David Lynch "Catching the Big Fish" and how he chooses a particular idea, fall in love with it and develop it. It doesn't surprise me that two of my all time favorite artists use the same method. Amazing!

[@nura111ful]

Dear Laszlo, you are amazing!

[@harshalbhanarkar]

Wow, feels amazing to see these two literary giants together!

[@nem0763]

wow clicked for Krasznahorkai, and find Luiselli is the moderator!! what an all star panel

[@ramdularsingh1435]

A great interaction between the two Giants of World Literature today !!!.... It's quite impressive and substantial !!!... Loved it infinitely !!!......

[@cesar9170]

cool storry brro

[@carbon1479]

35:30 - wow, Salman's fiction is sounding like something between HP Lovecraft and Alan Moore's Promethia.

[@milesknightestrada3286]

2:00: Phantasmagoria. 27:46: Amateur Hour.

[@ramdularsingh1435]

Two literary heavyweights discussing literature today.

[@cramirez3855]

is indescribably ominous

[@cramirez3855]

LazLo. your book

[@rohitmukerji7208]

The host is so hot.