The Interview:

California poet laureate and former Director of the NEA Dana Gioia discusses the lasting legacy of Ray Bradbury on contemporary culture and fantastical fiction with New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean (The Library Book and The Orchid Thief) and Bradbury biographer, professor, and Hat & Beard author Sam Weller.

The Reading:

Sam Weller reads from Bradbury's lesser-known trove of 1950s early short stories. 

Music by Nino Rota.