Lost Innocents

Shame on you if you're not already familiar with the fiction of Dana Spiotta. Her new novel, Innocents and Others ("innocents"--a group which may be likened, according to their prevalence in the world, with leprechauns, unicorns, and unbiased Fox News commentators), is a remarkable, innovative, at times brutally honest book. Read it now. (I defy you to read it and then not systematically devour everything else the woman has written.) And for a slightly more personal experience--more personal than reading the artist's fiction?! Nonsense!--show up at the 92nd Street Y on May 2nd to hear the esteemed Ms. Spiotta read with (insert drumroll)...literary demigod Don DeLillo!  You're welcome.