EVENT: PETER CAREY AT THE HAMMER

Peter Carey is absolutely one of my favorite living novelists - we're talking top five list, here - and he will be in Los Angeles next week at the Hammer Museum in conversation with Mona Simpson and ... me.  I've been asked to join Mona for his post-reading interview.  (I don't mind admitting to you all that I'm just a wee bit intimidated by the prospect.)

Carey truly is a giant - can anyone forget their first encounter with Oscar and Lucinda?  True History of the Kelly Gang?  Australia came a...