Please join James McBride and Dr. Abraham Verghese in a wide-ranging conversation about their writing lives, inspirations and processes. McBride is the author of the recently-released The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store and is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird. Dr. Verghese is the author of The Covenant of Water, his latest novel, and his previous bestselling book Cutting for Stone.