November Events: Writers on Writers, beginning November 1st

NYRB presents A Month of Writers on Writers at Barnes & Noble   150 East 86th Street, Upper East Side Monday, November 1st at 7PM The author of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell, and arts critic Terry Teachout discuss two cult dark comedic classics, The Dud Avocado and The Old Man and Me, by Elaine Dundy. Monday, November 15th at 7PM Author Luc Sante and National Book Award-winner Norman Rush discuss the dark psychological novels of Georges Simenon, one of the greatest and most prolific writers of the 20th-century. Monday, November 22nd at 7PM Literary critic Morris Dickstein and author and poet Honor Moore discuss the writer John Williams and his 1965 novel Stoner, which Dickstein has called "a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving that it takes your breath away." Monday, November 29th at 7PM Author André Aciman and journalist Joan Acocella discuss the mid-century Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig and, in particular, his posthumously discovered and just published novella, Journey Into the Past.