The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Nathaniel Hawthorne intersect as representatives of west coast hedonism and east coast Puritanism; Gertrude Stein presides over a same-sex religious movement; a mad Finnish-American painter turns Seattle's Hooverville into heaven; these are just a few of the fascinating, often hilarious intersections in Rebecca Brown's new collection of essays.  Wanderers, seekers, and sojourners populate Elena Georgiou's Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants, from the prose poem "Personal Ad for an Expatriate Cartographer" to "Immigrant #18: Prayer for an Alien with Extraordinary Ability in the Arts." Join us for an evening with Brown and Georgiou as they discuss their mix of poetry, pop culture, autobiography, fiction, literary history, misremembered movie plots and fantasy that get at our often failed attempt to figure out just what it means to be "American."