Join us for a conversation between Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer, and Cari Luna regarding César Aira's Five.

Five, selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together—each an astonishing work—Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical Brushstrokes, Princess Springtime, and The Hormone Pill. Following a cast of dreamlike characters including cyber nuns, a young princess forced to be a hack translator, a newspaper vendor, and General Winter and his sadistic sidekick, the Little Christmas Tree, Five shows the many facets of Aira’s multifarious mind as he turns expectations inside-out and gleefully explodes genre conventions.

Jeff VanderMeer is an American author, editor, and literary critic. The New Yorker dubbed him the "King of Weird Fiction."

Ann VanderMeer is the Hugo Award–winning former editor of Weird Tales magazine.

Cari Luna is the author of The Revolution of Every Day, which won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.