TONIGHT. I can’t go. Maybe you can. Must pick up in Park Slope. $15.

About Nathan Englander’s first collection of stories, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, masterful short stories about Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn, Ann Beattie wrote: "It’s the best story collection I’ve read in ages." Mr. Englander reads from The Ministry of Special Cases, his first novel. A MacArthur fellow, Jonathan Lethem is the author of Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Fortress of Solitude and other novels. His most recent work is You Don’t Love Me Yet, a novel.

Read more about Nathan Englander on the 92Y Blog.