Four writers dissect the crucial relationship of parent and child. Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, delivers a painful appraisal of his relationship with his brain-damaged son in Father’s Day. Alexandra Styron discusses Reading My Father, her memoir of growing up the daughter of the novelist William Styron. Alex Witchel, New York Times staff writer, explores the heartbreaking decline of her mother into dementia in All Gone, while in Crossing the Borders of Time, Leslie Maitland locates the lover from whom her mother was separated while fleeing Nazi Germany. Moderated by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, author of the memoir Bending Toward the Sun.