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Apr 22, 2026
The 2025 Booker Prize-winning novelist David Szalay and novelist Sam Lipsyte join us for a reading and conversation in celebration of Flesh — his “singular, exciting, propulsive” (Sarah Jessica Parker) new novel.
At first glance, Flesh seems disarmingly simple: a series of moments and conversations in the life of a man whose life is shrouded in apathy and disconnect. But these moments accumulate into something quietly profound — an intimate, unsettling portrait of masculinity, power, desire, and what it means to be alive in the modern world.
How do we inhabit our bodies? What do we owe one another? And what does intimacy really cost? In a special reading a conversation, join Szalay, “the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have” (Esquire), and Lipsyte to find out how Flesh became one of the most talked-about novels of the year — a book that traces the imperceptible but indelible contours of unresolved trauma and its aftermath with incisive insight, unyielding pathos, and startling humanity.
“Astonishing. Sometimes when I’m reading, one of the things I’m looking for is, how has this person made the novel new? And for me, this novel [is] new... Extraordinary.” — Zadie Smith
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