I tried going to the Great Hitchens/Sullivan Orwell discussion at NYU last Thursday; alas, it was completely packed and NYU security was not letting anyone into the room (not just into the building, but into the room; I was turned away even after I'd snuck into the building proper). Elizabeth Spiers and John Hiler both have extensive blow-by-blows.
As for me, after wandering around the building for a while, I made my way over to Tower and picked up Saint Etienne's latest, Finisterre, and the remastered version of Peter Gabriel's Shaking the Tree. Reviews coming soon (though I will say that the remastering does sound very nice in a side-by-side listening)...