Don DeLillo and His Favorite

“Zero K,” the latest novel from Don DeLillo — who was honored last year with a special National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement and possesses, in the words of Thomas Pynchon, “a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing” — is an ode to language, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. DeLillo is joined by his favorite young writer, Dana Spiotta, whose new novel is “Innocents and Others.” Mary Karr wrote, “As Don DeLillo did for rock and roll with ‘Great Jones Street,’ so Spiotta does for film.” 92nd Street Y’s Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Ave. May 2, 8 p.m. Tickets are $31-$42, $15 for those 35 and under at 92y.org.