Hernán Diaz, winner of the 2018 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for "In the Distance," reads from his book. Afterward, he will be joined on a panel featuring Chris Fischbach, publisher at Coffee House Press, and Heather Cleary, a translator and writer and one of the founding editors of the digital bilingual Buenos Aires Review. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event will be followed by a public reception, book sale and signing.

The event is free and open to the public, but please register. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. For more information, please call the VCU Libraries Events Office at (804) 828-0593.