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BAM and the National Book Awards Present Nine Acclaimed Authors for Eat, Drink & Be Literary, Jan 23—Jun 5 BAM and the National Book Awards present nine acclaimed authors for Eat, Drink & Be Literary, Jan 23—Jun 5 Ninth annual literary-dining series features Martin Amis, Colson Whitehead, Nell Freudenberger, Jamaica Kincaid, Junot Díaz, Alison Bechdel, Richard Russo, and Keith Gessen & Masha Gessen Moderators are Deborah Treisman, Phillip Lopate, and Harold Augenbraum Bloomberg is the presenting sponsor for Eat, Drink & Be Literary “Expertly produced…bottomless and quite good wine.” —The New Yorker Brooklyn, NY/November 29, 2012—Following the success of eight previous sold-out seasons, BAM and the National Book Awards are pleased to present the 2013 season of Eat, Drink & Be Literary, featuring an extraordinary roster of literary legends and genre innovators, including two Pulitzer Prize winners. Beginning in January and running through June 2012 at BAMcafé, the series features leading contemporary authors reading from their work and discussing their writing process. These events offer literary devotees—writers and readers alike—the chance to socialize and enjoy a delicious meal before the readings in an informal setting that encourages discourse and an appreciation of exceptional writing. Doors open at 6pm and the events begin at 6:30pm with live music and wine followed by a buffet dinner presented by restaurateur Great Performances. The literary program features authors reading from their works, followed by a discussion with the moderator, a Q&A with the audience, and book signing. Greenlight Bookstore at BAM kiosks will provide books for purchase. Tickets for Eat, Drink & Be Literary go on sale December 10 to Friends of BAM and December 17 to the general public. Tickets can be purchased by calling BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100 or by visiting BAM.org. Tickets also may be purchased in person at the BAM Box Office, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue from 10am to 6pm Monday—Friday; 12noon—6pm on Saturday; and 12noon—4pm on Sundays with scheduled performances. Tickets are $55, which includes admission to the reading, dinner, wine, tax, and tip. Purchase tickets for five or more Eat, Drink & Be Literary events to save 20%. The featured authors and moderators are: January 23 Martin Amis, Author Deborah Treisman, Moderator “Mr. Amis is his generation’s top literary dog...You’re never out of reach of a sparkly phrase, stiletto metaphor or drop-dead insight into the human condition.” —The New York Times Book Review “In adolescence, everybody feels the impulse to write—poems, plays, stories. Writers are simply the people who stick with it…What we loosely call ‘inspiration’ remains as mysterious as that first adolescent impulse.” —Martin Amis Martin Amis is the author of 13 novels, including Money, London Fields, Time’s Arrow, The Information, The Pregnant Widow, and, most recently, Lionel Asbo, State of England. He is the author of the memoir Experience, two collections of short stories, and six books of nonfiction, including The Moronic Inferno, Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions, Koba the Dread, and The War Against Cliché. Amis has served as literary editor of The New Statesman and is a regular contributor to many newspapers and journals including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. He lives in Brooklyn. February 6 Colson Whitehead, Author Deborah Treisman, Moderator “A satirist so playful that you often don’t even feel his scalpel, Whitehead toys with the shards of contemporary culture with an infectious glee.” —The Daily Beast “You take what you want from a genre, deform it, steal from it, pay homage, and at the same time, if you’re doing it right, you are extending the possibilities of that genre, reinvigorating it.” —Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead is the author of the novels John Henry Days, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Intuitionist, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize; Apex Hides the Hurt; the bestseller Sag Harbor, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and most recently, the post-apocalyptic zombie novel Zone One. He is also the author of the essay collection The Colossus of New York. Whitehead’s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, and Granta. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Whiting Award. He lives in Brooklyn. February 27 Nell Freudenberger, Author Phillip Lopate, Moderator “In simple, elegant prose, she renders foreign landscapes with unsentimental precision.” —Vogue “Sometimes you find someone with whom you think you could stay for hundreds of pages, and that’s how a novel starts.” —Nell Freudenberger Nell Freudenberger is the author of The Dissident, a novel about a Chinese performance artist in Los Angeles, and most recently, The Newlyweds, about a Bangladeshi Muslim woman whose online courtship leads to marriage in America. She is also the author of the short story collection Lucky Girls, which won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Freudenberger, a Guggenheim Fellow, was a recipient of a 2005 Whiting Award and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” She lives in Brooklyn. March 6 Jamaica Kincaid, Author Phillip Lopate, Moderator “Kincaid writes with passion and conviction…a musical sense of language, a poet’s understanding of how politics and history, private and public events, overlap and blur.” —The New York Times “I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.” —Jamaica Kincaid Born in Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid is the author of the memoir My Brother, which won the Prix Femina Etranger, and the works Annie John, Lucy, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya, Mr. Potter, and The Autobiography of My Mother, which won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Kincaid’s short story collection At the Bottom of the River won the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award and was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award. Her short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and The New Yorker, where she was a staff writer for 19 years. Her first novel in 10 years, See Now Then, on the topic of marriage and family life, publishes this February. She lives in Vermont. April 3 Junot Díaz, Author Deborah Treisman, Moderator “His world explodes off the page into the canon of our literature and our hearts.” —Walter Mosley “The only success I’ve had as a writer is by screwing up over and over and over. This is a tiring and demoralizing way to go about writing. But I don’t know any other approach.” —Junot Díaz Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic. He is the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; This is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; and the critically acclaimed short story collection Drown. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, and numerous Best American Short Stories anthologies. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, a PEN/ Malamud Award, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a PEN/O. Henry Award, among other accolades. Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the cofounder of Voices of Our Nation Workshop. He lives in New York and Massachusetts. May 8 Alison Bechdel, Author Phillip Lopate, Moderator “As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs…The book delivers lightning bolts of revelation.” —The New York Times Book Review on Are You My Mother? “Cartooning for me has been like a way to be a crypto-writer…I don’t want to diminish the drawing. I think it’s integral to what I do. But I’m kind of a secret writer.” —Alison Bechdel Alison Bechdel is the author of two bestselling graphic memoirs, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Are You My Mother? For 25 years, she wrote and drew the popular comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life, queer and otherwise. Bechdel has also been an editor of the Best American Comics series and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney’s, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review. She lives in Vermont. May 29 Richard Russo, Author Harold Augenbraum, Moderator “There is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo’s fiction” —The New Yorker “For me, writing has nothing to do with telling people what I think and everything to do with discovering what I think.” —Richard Russo Richard Russo is the author of six novels: Mohawk, Bridge of Sighs, Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man, That Old Cape Magic, and Empire Falls, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which he adapted for the award-winning HBO miniseries starring Ed Harris. Russo has written screenplays for numerous films, including Ice Harvest and Keeping Mum, and penned the short story collection The Whore’s Child and Other Stories, the novella Intervention, and the memoir Elsewhere. He lives in Maine and Boston. June 5 Keith Gessen and Masha Gessen, Authors Phillip Lopate, Moderator “[Keith] Gessen…proves himself not only a capable observer but a natural novelist with a warm gun.” —The New York Times Book Review “An unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia” —The Wall Street Journal, on [Masha Gessen’s] The Man Without a Face Keith Gessen is the editor-in-chief of n+1 and the author of the novel All the Sad Young Literary Men.
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