Best-selling author André Aciman’s collection of essays, Homo Irrealis, explores what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the past, the present, or the future; instead, they are about what might have been but never was, but in theory, could still happen. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of famous thinkers, the collection is a deep reflection on the imagination’s power to forge a zone outside of time’s intractable hold. In conversation with historian and author David Nasaw, Aciman takes us on a spellbinding journey that combines aesthetics, art, and his lived experiences.

André Aciman:- was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar. He is The New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, as well as of several other novels, memoirs, and essay collections. Aciman is the director of The Writers’ Institute and is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.

David Nasaw:- is the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor Emeritus at the CUNY
Graduate Center. His most recent publication is The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War. The Patriarch, his biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, and Andrew Carnegie were Pulitzer Prize finalists. His biography of William
Randolph Hearst was awarded the Bancroft Prize for History.

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