Reading Room: A Talk with the Author

Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies

Daniel Heller-Roazen

(Zone Books, 2025)

Saturday, October 4, 2025 • 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things they never meant to say, the saying, in its unsteady relation to understanding, becomes an event. That event has long been studied by prophets, priests and rabbis, poets and philosophers, linguists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, novelists and filmmakers. Far Calls explores the powers of sonorous coincidence and the varieties of reading that it incites.

Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom. 

Fee: Attendance is free and open to the public. Registration details to follow.

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Daniel Heller-Roazen is Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His most recent books are Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons (2021) and No One’s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming (2017).