Cold, schmold. Tonight’s Drue Heinz lecture features authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, a luminous literary couple (yep, they’re married). Chabon is, by my guess, the best-known graduate of Pitt’s creative writing program: he won a Pulitzer for his 2001 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Around these parts, his debut novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is also fondly remembered; new Pitt students wander around Oakland trying to find the cloud factory. Where is it, exactly?

Ayelet Waldman, who started out as a lawyer, has published 7 novels; her latest, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, is just now out in paperback. I was at a New Year’s Eve party where everyone who hadn’t already read it was clamoring to get their hands on a copy — John at the Aspinwall Bookshop had been spreading the good word.

Tonight the couple will be onstage, asking questions of each other. Chances are it’ll be like being at a magical cocktail party, where the funniest, smartest couple in the room tell such good stories that everyone gathers around to listen.

As much as you can huddle around a coffee table from the balcony of the Carnegie Library, that is.