The New York Times presents TimesTalks LIVE, a new live high-definition cinema experience featuring one-of-a-kind, intimate discussions with some of today's most fascinating film, TV, and literary talents, interviewed by prize-winning New York Times journalists at The TimesCenter in New York. Winner of the National Book Award and the Academy Award, author John Irving, author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules, is one of America's most renowned and popular novelists. In this exclusive New York interview, Irving talks with New York Times writer-at-large Charles McGrath about his most recent novel and about his more than forty years as a best-selling author.