Union Square B&N
33 East 17th St.
Tuesday, November 29, free, 7:00
212-253-0810
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Two of America’s finest novelists have taken a foray into a different genre for them in the latest issue of the British literary journal Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Don DeLillo (White Noise, Mao II) and Paul Auster (Leviathan, The Music of Chance) have contributed spooky tales to the horror issue, along with such other writers as Mark Doty, Sarah Hall, Will Self, D. A. Powell, and the master himself, Stephen King. Auster’s “Your Birthday Has Come and Gone,” excerpted from his upcoming memoir and written in the second person, deals with the death of his mother, while DeLillo’s “The Starveling” is a modern noir set in New York City. DeLillo and Auster will read from and discuss their stories, and the horror genre, at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on Tuesday night at 7:00, with priority seating given to people who buy a copy of Granta 117.