Deborah Eisenberg reads from Twilight of the Superheroes, her fifth book of short stories. A recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three 0. Henry Awards, Eisenberg is also the author of Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, and All Around Atlantis. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.

The Some Favorite Writers series is sponsored by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English, and organized by Mona Simpson.