THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO AN UNFORSEEN SCHEDULING CONFLICT. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.   Big Machine (Random House) Victor LaValle will be here to read from and sign his new-in-paperback novel Big Machine, one of our staff picks! "If Hieronymus Bosch and Lenny Bruce got knocked up by a woman with a large and compassionate heart, they might have brought forth Big Machine. But it is Victor LaValle's peculiar, poetic, rough and funny voice that brings it to us, alive and kicking and irresistible." —Amy Bloom In addition to Big Machine, Victor LaValle is the author of the short-story collection Slapboxing with Jesus and the novel The Ecstatic, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, and the key to Southeast Queens.  He was raised in Queens, New York.