Yale English professor Caryl Phillips will read from his novel "In the Falling Snow". "In the Falling Snow" is the story of the breakdown and recovery of one man, whose exploration of his own identity raises questions of race, immigration and class in modern Britain.

John Moran, production manager of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar, will read from his novel "The Benefactor." In "The Benefactor," a young widow discovers her husband's accidental death is the latest in a series of murders-for-profit reaching back more than a decade.

Dr. John A. Elefteriades, chief of cardiac surgery, reads from his new novel "Transplant". In this technothriller, a top heart surgeon is kidnapped and threatened with an unspeakable loss — all to make him perform a forbidden procedure.