From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers comes his new novel, Contrapposto, about prairie-born Cricket Dib, who has no particular prospects or ambitions until he realizes he can draw. Contrapposto examines the rules and market of the art world, but it is mainly a story of two friends who believe they can change that world and bring new meaning to it.

Joining Eggers this evening is his friend, fellow novelist Andrew Sean Greer, whose latest work Villa Coco follows a nameless narrator, an assistant to a wealthy widow. He is charged with the task of archiving art, but is pulled into far more complicated schemes as he tries to reunite his employer with the love of her life before it is too late.

Be sure to visit Town Hall Seattle for a conversation that explores the power of art and of human connection.