The panel discussion will ask some of the brightest young literary minds of today: How much worse can it get? New Yorker editor Ben Greenman will moderate this morbid but entertaining conversation between Gary Shteyngart (author of Absurdistan), Rivka Galchen (author of Atmospheric Disturbances) and Cory Doctorow (author of For the Win and co-editor of Boing Boing) as they try to decide what is wrong, and if there is any way to slow the decline. Drinks will be served, thank god.