Tom Lynch

Two of the literary world's heavyweights--and one Chicago can claim as its own--hit the Abbey Pub stage together as part of Nextbook's growing and impressive reading series. Hemon's "The Story of Bruno" and "Nowhere Man" made him one of Chicago's most prominent writers in recent years, while Lethem's beautiful thriller "Motherless Brooklyn" and last year's collection of essays "The Disappointment Artist" mark him as one of the best of his generation. Tonight they read and discuss the works of Bernard Malamud, an author whose importance, though once neglected, only grows with time.

Aleksander Hemon and Jonathan Lethem read Malamud February 20 at Abbey Pub, 3420 West Grace, (773)478-4408, at 7pm.

(2006-02-14)

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