The Collyer brothers, to jog your memory, amassed a ton of odds and ends inside their Harlem manse back in the early 20th century — newspapers, chandeliers, even a Model T Ford. In a city-wide headline, blind and dependent Homer perished soon after Langley died in a storage accident. E.L. Doctorow continues his mastery of historical fiction with his latest novel, Homer and Langley, which comes nearly a half-century after his arrival on the lit scene. Tonight, the Bronx-born author of such classics as Ragtime heads out to Brooklyn to discuss his famously offbeat subjects.