Join us on April 8 at 7pm, when Giada Scodellaro will be in conversation with Katie Kitamura, to discuss Ruins, Child, the winner of the 2024 Novel Prize—a startlingly beautiful and unclassifiable book.

RSVP here

Giada Scodellaro was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. Her debut collection from Dorothy Project, Some of Them Will Carry Me—hailed as “stunning” (Renee Gladman) and “riveting, brilliant” (Alexandra Kleeman)—was one of The New Yorker best books of 2022.

Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, it was one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025. It was also a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her previous novel, Intimacies, was one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature and the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, Kitamura’s work has been translated into 27 languages and is being adapted for film. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.