self-awareness

John Williams reads from three novels: Butcher's Crossing (1978), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972).

Yanyi reads from his two published collections, The Year of Blue Water (2019) and Dream of the Divided Field (2022), opening with two early, uncollected poems and closing with one recent draft. Intimacy emerges as a thematic center—in friendships, romantic relationships, and with the self.