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Eat. Drink & Be Literary:
Dinner & a Reading at BAMcafe

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) presents eight acclaimed authors for Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Dinner and a Reading in BAMcafé. The events begin at 6:30 p.m. with live music and wine provided by Napa Valley's award-winning Pine Ridge Winery, followed by a delicious buffet dinner in the BAMcafé prepared by executive chef, Tim Sullivan. At 8:00 p.m. the literary program begins with authors reading from their works, after which they will participate in a discussion with the moderator, and answer questions from audience members.

The featured authors and moderators are:

January 7: Wallace Shawn, with Daniel Menaker - Sold Out
January 21: E. L. Doctorow, with Daniel Menaker - Sold Out
February 11: Lynn Nottage, with Daniel Menaker - Sold Out
March 11: Sam Lipsyte, with Daniel Menaker
April 8: Colm Toibin, with Deborah Treisman - Sold Out
April 22: Joshua Ferris, with Daniel Menaker
May 6: Jayne Anne Phillips, with Deborah Treisman
June 3: Sam Shepard, with Deborah Treisman - Sold Out

Tickets are $52 per event, including admission to the reading, dinner, wine, tax, and tip. A 20% discount is available to those who buy tickets to five or more events. Subscription and single tickets may be purchased through BAM Ticket Services at 718-636-4100. Single tickets may also be purchased online at BAM.org and in person at the BAM Box Office, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. BAMcafé is on the second floor of the BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building.

For more information, visit www.bam.org.

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TICKETING INFORMATION

2010 Eat, Drink & Be Literary
on-sale dates:
Nov 16 (Nov 9 for Friends of BAM)

Subscriptions to Eat, Drink & Be Literary are available by phone only. Please call 718.636.4100 (BAM Ticket Services) to order.

MUSIC

Dinner music provided by cellist Mimi Yu and pianist Kwan Yi.

BAM would like to thank The Juilliard School for its assistance in arranging these musicians.

MODERATORS
Daniel Menaker
Daniel Menaker began his twenty-six-year career at The New Yorker as a fact checker in 1969, and seven years later became an editor specializing in fiction. In 1995, he went to Random House as Senior Editor. In 2001, he became Executive Editor at HarperCollins, returning to Random House in 2003 as Editor-in-Chief of the Random House Publishing Group. He is also the author of two books of short stories, and two novels, The Treatment, which was made into an independent film A Good Talk, a book about conversation.

Deborah Treisman
Deborah Treisman joined The New Yorker's fiction department at 27, serving as deputy fiction editor from 1997 to 2002, and becoming the department’s first female fiction editor in 2003. Prior to her time at The New Yorker, Treisman was a member of the editorial staffs of Grand Street, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, and The Threepenny Review.