A conversation and party, hosted by Transit Books and the Los Angeles Review of Books, at Transit HQ, Berkeley.

Transit Books and the Los Angeles Review of Books are hosting a Bay Area Book Festival bash, with a conversation between bestelling writer R.O. Kwon, author of Exhibit and The Incendiaries, and Lauren Markham, author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, A Map of Future Ruins, and most recently, Immemorial, part of Transit's Undelivered Lectures series.

Los Angeles Review of Books is a non-profit literary magazine covering culture, politics, and the arts. Publishing reviews, essays, and interviews online every day, as well as a quarterly print journal, which features original fiction, poetry, and visual art, LARB has reimagined the literary review—fusing the high and the low, the academic and the avant-garde—in a way that fosters accessibility and expertise, playfulness as well as precision.

Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2015, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities.

Lauren Markham is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life and A Map of Future Ruins. Her work has appeared in VQR, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and in the Ashland University MFA in Writing Program.

R.O. Kwon is the bestselling author of Exhibit and The Incendiaries.