Places Real and Imagined with Haley Tanner and Alexi Zentner

Local scribe Tanner's first novel, Vaclav & Lena, wanders Brooklyn with the childlike enthusiasm of its adolescent Russian-immigrant hero, the titular Vaclav. Touch, Zentner's debut work, is set in an eerie winter landscape full of evil wood spirits and familial regret. Tonight the writers talk about the pros and cons of using invented or real locations in fiction.