Fiction writer AAMER HUSSEIN is in Karachi for the publication of Hermitage (Ushba), his experimental new collection of stories, which intersperses moments of history, family memories, and retellings of classic parables with photographs and other images. Here is a chance to hear him read from his new work, and talk to renowned critic Muneeza Shamsie and Asif Farrukhi about the new directions his fiction has taken, his love of short forms, and his attachment to the city of his birth.