Ludmilla Petrushevskaya with Keith Gessen

Where: McNally Jackson, 52 Prince St., New York, NY

Petrushevskaya is a major figure in Russian literature, and her new American collection There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby (Viking) which has already been excerpted in The New Yorker and Harper’s, should bring her some more well-deserved attention. She’ll be reading for us in Russian and English, with the help of translator, novelist and critic Keith Gessen.