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.

J.D. McClatchy, editor of The Yale Review and adjunct professor of English, reads from his poetry collection "Mercury Dressing."