Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Hari Kunzru is the author of seven novels: Blue Ruin, Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The Impressionist. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the "Easy Chair" column for Harper's Magazine. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University and is the host of the podcast Into the Zone, from Pushkin Industries. He lives in Brooklyn.

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session beginning at 4:00 pm.

Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Born in Detroit to Arab immigrants, Hayan Charara is a poet, children's book author, essayist, and editor. His latest poetry collection, These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit, was published by Milkweed Editions. His children's book, The Three Lucys (Lee and Low 2019), received the New Voices Award Honor, and he edited Inclined to Speak, an anthology of contemporary Arab American poetry. With Fady Joudah, he is also a series editor of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Hayan lives in Texas, where he teaches at The Honors College at the University of Houston.

His newest work, Hush, Little Children, will be published by Flexible Press in Fall 2025. His novel follows a couple trying to get pregnant just as a child suicide epidemic breaks out and a fringe group led by a charismatic leader uses disinformation and fear to advance ideologies rooted in hatred.

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session beginning at 4:00 pm.

Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, MA, with her family.

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session beginning at 4:00 pm.