What is the role of fiction in our contemporary universe? Why do we feel compelled -- in a light-speed digital world shot through with trauma and anxiety -- to enter into the slow process of invention? David Hollander and Jo Ann Beard will explore these and other important questions about writing, as they discuss how Hollander's Anthropica came about, and why some books seem to demand to exist.

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David Hollander is the author of the novel L.I.E. (Random House), a Young Lions Fiction Award nominee, and of the forthcoming Anthropica (Animal Riot Press, September 1, 2020). His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, Fence, Agni, Unsaid, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Fantasy, among other reputable and disreputable publications. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two children and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College. www.longlivetheauthor.com

Jo Ann Beard is the author of The Boys of My Youth, In Zanesville, and the forthcoming Festival Days.